Last week I read 3 novels, the first of which was The Affair by Lee Child. The sixteenth novel in the Jack Reacher saga, it was a bit of a let down. The reasons are obvious. It is a prequel. The novel is about the last case Jack Reacher investigated as a Military Policeman and the case after which he chose/had to leave the U.S. Army.
By now, readers have come to expect Reacher getting out at the end of the story with his life intact, though worse for wear in some instances. But with this prequel, we know that Reacher is not going to get hurt, even a teeny, weeny, scratch.
Still Lee Child manages to build up a little bit of excitement and thrill in patches. The plot has nothing mysterious from the start. The probable suspects are laid out front from the start and it is only the attempts by the Army to cover up the murder(s), which offer some mystery.
At long last, Reacher is also involved in explicit sex sceneries, which he had managed to ‘cover up’ till now - or seeing that it is a prequel, manages to cover up after this? Whatever, the sex is really corny, with the train moving in with its ‘shakes’.
:-P
The story itself is somewhere between 14th novel, 61 hours, which was great, and the 15th novel Worth Dying For, which was an absolute let down.
My take?
By now, readers have come to expect Reacher getting out at the end of the story with his life intact, though worse for wear in some instances. But with this prequel, we know that Reacher is not going to get hurt, even a teeny, weeny, scratch.
Still Lee Child manages to build up a little bit of excitement and thrill in patches. The plot has nothing mysterious from the start. The probable suspects are laid out front from the start and it is only the attempts by the Army to cover up the murder(s), which offer some mystery.
At long last, Reacher is also involved in explicit sex sceneries, which he had managed to ‘cover up’ till now - or seeing that it is a prequel, manages to cover up after this? Whatever, the sex is really corny, with the train moving in with its ‘shakes’.
:-P
The story itself is somewhere between 14th novel, 61 hours, which was great, and the 15th novel Worth Dying For, which was an absolute let down.
My take?
- If you are a Reacher Creature, this novel is a must.
- If you have a passion for reading cowboy stories, you can read this 1977 cowboy story.
- If you have time to kill over a week/weekend, go for it.
- But a must read for fiction readers, it is not.
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