Brian H

Reading the first book in the series, Nash Falls, is a necessity before reading this sequel.  I really like all of Baldacci’s novels.  While not the best series, it is still a very good book and I recommend reading it.  I find them easy to read and kept my interest throughout.  I really liked the several “surprises”.  Overall, the story is full of lies, betrayal, and intrigue.

Overall, I enjoyed the book.  Read pretty quickly.  I liked the new character, John Sherwood, and his banter with Lucas.  Not the best of the series as it was pretty straight forward without surprises but I still recommend reading the book.

Listened to audiobook.  Narrator has strong Australian accent and was difficult to understand at first (I was playing at 1.66.  Slowing down to 1.33 helped quite a bit.  Overall, I liked the book.  Good cast of bad characters and buildup to make it difficult to predict guilty party.

Overall, this book was a disappointment.  I also did not like the earlier Le Carre books with Smiley but was hoping this one would be good as it is in the 1001 must books to read before you die.  I found it slow and difficult to follow.  Maybe the movie would be better.

Overall, I enjoyed the book.  I liked the main character and his wisecracking personality.  Reminds me of Harlen Coben’s Myron Bolitar.  The story was easy to follow and had some nice unexpected twists.  My only complaint would be it could have been shorter, there was a fair amount of unnecessary info.  I listened to audio book, the narrator was excellent.

I tried to listen to this book on audio but found it very difficult to follow as the narrator spoke with a very strong English accent.  I highly recommend reading versus listening unless of course you are English.  I had to stop listening, first time ever.

I enjoyed the book.  While not a traditional thriller, it was suspenseful and held my interest the entire book.  There were many characters but the author did a great job developing each and had no trouble keeping track of the various stories.  I really liked how the author intertwined the character stories, all of them with many unexpected twists.

Another really good Peter Ash book by Nick Petrie. The book had the usual action.  While you definitely want the bad guys to be stopped and punished, the basis for their actions related to disparity in pay, lack of control of decisions, and losing control to technology like artificial intelligence were all real concerns of all current citizens.  Their attempted solution clearly unacceptable.  

I thought the first half of the booked dragged as it took 200 pages for character development and some unnecessary info.  However, it picked up in the second half and was hard to put down.  So overall I enjoyed the book.  This was my first book by Finder and I plan to read more.

I really enjoyed 5 of the 6 short stories. The only one I did not was “True Story”.  The writing approach was different and at first interesting but quickly jumped around too much.  I thought the other stories were excellent, good stories and writing.

I listened to the audio book. Many times, I found it difficult the narrator’s French accent for Poirot.  The English accents were hard to understand at times. I suggest reading the book. I would guess I would rate it higher in this format as the story itself was pretty good. 

I really liked the story even though many of the actions by the title character were unrealistic for a young boy.