Chloe Fisher

Jeffery Deaver is my all-time favourite author and I really enjoyed the adaptation of his book The Bone Collector into the film with Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie, plus I enjoyed watching Justin Hartley in This Is Us, so I had high hopes for Tracker. However, with the series of Colter Shaw books fresh in my mind, I’m struggling a bit with this TV adaptation. Colter is such a deep character, and it’s much easier to illustrate this in text - the background re: his father and how that shapes him, his constant risk percentage calculations and how he makes the decisions he does etc. Without all of that context, I find it more of a struggle to get into. Also, Colter isn’t much of a womaniser in the books. I’ve only seen a couple of episodes of Tracker so far as it’s only just been released in the UK, but the first episode didn’t give me much hope that this series wouldn’t go in that direction, which I don’t think is necessary. Maybe it just makes for good TV though/helps it to appeal to a wider audience and they have to put something else in there like that to make up for missing the other parts of his character that don’t so easily translate to this medium. I had similar struggles with Bones and The Hunger Games as well, but at some point I started watching them again whilst putting aside in my mind that they are based on books, and once I did that, I did manage to enjoy them more as just standalone TV series/films, so maybe this is what I need to try to do with Tracker as well. It is the kind of series I would usually watch anyway, regardless of whether or not it’s based on books I’ve read, so I’m hoping it will grow on me! I think anyone who has not read the books beforehand will probably like it and then if they read the books afterwards they will be pleasantly surprised at how much better they are, but for people who have read the books first, it may not be so easy to fall in love with the TV series immediately