Sebastian True

For Grisham's reputation I was a bit disappointed. I appreciated that it was well researched and I couldn't pull him up for that. It's quite hard to visualise or connect with any of the characters, absolutely no visuals throughout. The interactions with the two boys is limited and by the end it's hard to see that they were close. There were way too many court cases, obviously this is JG's expertise but the long-winded hurricane court cases didn't seem to bring much except his reputation, it didn't need to drag out for that long. The first court case was Nell murdering someone (can't remember the name). That court case lasted two pages then not long after there were three pages for a chicken fight. This book didn't even have that great a plot, for the most part it's difficult to see where it's going and in the end the court case that is supposed to be the 'pinnacle' of this story is surprisingly boring. If I could rate this on a scale to 10 it would have gotten 4.5 to 5 so I will give the benefit of the doubt. Very difficult read. Rushed. Longer than it needed to be. No really interesting plot. Couldn't connect with any character. Fundamental flaws: Fats shoots his brains out then it's stated no less than two pages later that he's behind bars?? Who edited this? There's a guy "undercover for Jesse". Barely anything is told about him but he comes up with information in the most lazily written way possible? The bomber was absolutely broke so built a bomb, all the $50'000 were found for the job yet he was able to pay $10'000 to Noll?

Can only follow with the other reviews. I did like 'I am Pilgrim' a lot. Although I've written spoiler alert ahead I think it's best to read it to avoid wasting your time. (SPOILER ALERTS) I saw a review that said "it seems to convenient that we never saw the effects of the terror attack" and now this book tries to knit together the combination of the terror occuring but also giving the superhero a chance to rectify it with a time travelling submarine. The first 2 and a half parts were a decent spy novel, still can get exasperated by Terry Hayes attention to insignificant details and ignorance to flagrant flaws in his stories. There are also big flaws to the spies knowledge, how would someone with such intelligence be surprised that a pressurized fire extinguisher would explode upon being lit? Why would his wife be allowed access to all these details of a mission? Then the cheesy bits were just annoying, rising from the submarine and by pure chance the person he encounters 24 years into he future is his son? I was dreading that as soon as I read it that it would turn out to be his child and then when his sister comes in with cheesy lines like "hey sis" just made me cringe. Then they decide he should travel back, they fix the submarine in three weeks and in one page he travels back with no difficulty? Also the dialogue really does not impress me. Constantly trying to show a casual side to people in the worst situations and showing that no character in the book possesses a natural sense of humour, just tacky. The whole book was an exhausting read and I have regrets finishing it. It's is abundantly obvious that he got tired near the end of this and it seems the editor did as well with the way some of his sentences were poorly structured. I'm not only disappointed, I am somewhat angry. This book shows a clear lack of respect to Hayes's audience