Armaan Garg

The series just gets darker with every page. On the onset, the title impressed me a lot. It seemed genuine and indirectly you see it's significance when you read the book. There is a change in the narration in the book. Unlike the first part where it seems that the protagonist is talking to a girl, this one is purely first person. Every murderer justifies to himself why the kill is necessary and normally, not many people with agree with him. In this book, being inside Joe's brain, you see how he is justifying himself that he has to kill a person and that is where the author made a mark. She has written everything in such a manner that the reader is convinced that anyone in the protagonist's position would have thought of the same. Another thing in this book is that there are so many characters. While to some it may seem boring, I think that the author has worker hard to create the dynamism of evry character. And since the scene setting is in LA, the author also has showed a wide variety of personalities. The author has showed the poor and struggling masses of people striving to get into the Hollywood, and the author has also showed the rich and settled in the Hollywood masses. The contrast is very much prominent with the cunning style of writing. Like I said, the series gets darker. The sub-plots involving killing has less content, but are very thrilling, nevertheless. My only disappointment is with the end. The reader doesn't get a closure as in the You. The author leaves the reader hanging in the middle with virtually no suspense because somehow, she assures us that it is a happy ending. The twists in the story are brilliant. They are non-speculative and mind blowing. They literally make the heart race. Philosophycally, this book is entrenched. The author has written a lot of things which are may seem silly or incrimminatory, but are still true. With all the above details, Hidden Bodies is the next step from You.

Part of the reason this part is better than the others is that it actually presents the power of Jack Reacher. It shows the reader how important the character is, which I think was the reason it was chosen to be adapted into the movie. The beginning is very impressive. The storyline (for a novel) is very good. It is mysterious and thrilling. While having the same plot as the base, the movie had made a lot of changes in the sub-plots. I would not say that the plot of the novel was bad as compared to the movie, but it was very much different. For one, there were a lot of characters, and some unnecessary ones. That was the only place the movie was better than the novel. The content of the story was very vast, with a lot of sub-plots. I would recommend watching the movie beforehand partly because then the novel seems very good ;), but mostly because it is easy to picture the scene setting thereafter. Among other perks, this novel gives a lot of scenes - as compared to previous parts - where we see action with Reacher involved. The villain is also a very dignified character. The author tells us his past which helps the dignity part. As a summation I would only say that this novel is a one step development with Jack Reacher series.

I give this book 4 out of 5 stars. Good story, amazing story. I say this because I said the same for 'The Girl On the Train'. For all the folks who have read that book, this one would seem very similar. There is a girl who drinks, who fantasies from afar about a family, something happens one day and she reports it, but nobody listens to her because of she drinks a lot. So there are the similarities. But having said that, of course there are different quirks about this one. There ars two kinda of readers, one who like to just read about the story and not much about the scene-setting. Second, are the ones who want everything to be detailed to have clarity about everything. I belong to the second category and so does this book. So naturally, I like this thing about this novel. Another thing about this book, the plot progression is very slow at the start. Also even after the main event, the author has to heavily depend on the back story of the protagonist to show some movement in the story. The twists in the story don't come until after the main event has happened and then, too, there comes a big gap once the in the sub-plot (but the gap helps the overall plot somehow). The plot picks up the real speed when the climax starts and that is in the later second half. I would have given this book one less star but the ending is superb (but very short). Unlike 'The Girl on the Train', there aren't many possibilities as to who could have committed the murder. Finally, this book is a Goodread but only if you're interested reading the details (otherwise it seems prolonged) and the ending is, without fail, the best thing in this book.

Let me just start off by saying that I was expecting the book to be bad. After you right about so many topics there comes a time when the formula eventually fades away. Brown proved me wrong completely. It is a very good book, no improvement from the previous books. But still captivating and a page-turner. And for this Brown chose a very good theme too. There still is a lot of running wuth a deadline to find the clues to protect the world. So basically the plt line is the same. But yeah of course the theme is different and enough to make it a good read.

This is a good book. It really is. But this is still not a perfect book because it is just about the facts. The author tells his story before the War, during the War, and very less about the immediate after the War. The thing is, any novel based on the WW2 can be good if only if the author explains the predicament properly. By this I mean the emotions. The author talks about what were the conditions in the prison camp. But he doesn't explain how he felt during the time. Every prisoner of war, after the War had a hard time getting back to a normal life because the horrors haunted them. That part is also missing. I hope you understand what I am getting at here. But otherwise it is a good enough quick-read. So, go ahead and read what the Jews went through the War.

For the people who, after reading Ice Station, thought that plot speed cannot get any faster, Area 7 is a book for you. Scarecrow being a hero yet again, this book is better than Ice Station in all respects. The author even provides with a layout of the place where a scene is set. With new thrilling secrets and even faster action sequences, Area 7 continues the the legacy of the protagonist, Scarecrow.

This book is mind blowing. A complete and pure action thriller. The plot progression, scene set-up, and the action is nothing short of movies like Mission Impossible or Avengers (of course leaving out the superpowers part). In fact it is even better, because the scenes are open to your imagination. The story moves with a very fast pace and trust me when I say that novels have a speed, it is true and this book proves it to you. As for the writing style, Matthew Ripey is definitely a pro with action. There are gaps in the plot when there is a breath-seizing moment and most of the plot is something that could happen in real life, not made up situations. On the whole it is a must-read.