owen Higgs

Wasn’t it a Mark Twain book that said “Don’t use so much kindling getting your fire started”? I’ve read many Koontz books over the years and have come to the conclusion that he’s never met a sentence that he can’t turn into a chapter. The book has a great storyline and likable characters but there’s just too much diatribe. Rehashing the same inner conflicts over and over again wore me out. It could have been a great short story or a great novel if more meat was there. A lot was left unanswered, which is disappointing, but if there’s a sequel I doubt I’ll read it.

Worst Reacher book by far. I don’t believe Lee Child had anything to do with it other than maybe give advice on the general plot. Even the character wasn’t Jack. No way he would have fallen for the drop-the-keys routine the Russian did towards the end. Everybody reading the book knew what was going on but Reacher didn’t? If Lee is done I think they (and we) would be better off letting Reacher fade away and let us be content re reading previous books on occasion. I won’t be buying another Reacher book.