Reyli Tovar

Amazing book, Edward Lane is one of the best described villains in the entire series who brought the best dialogues out of him and Reacher. Shocking plot twist and events, great characters, very fun book overall. One of my favorites. Top 3 book.

The book is just as good as the movie, and I love how Anton's motives and integration of his coin tosses into fate are described. He gave Carla Jean the coin toss and- she played it? I understand why they changed it in the movie to challenge Anton's principles, but in the story when she lost the coin toss, Anton surprisingly showed some sympathy as if he was forced to kill her even though he wasn't- only by his twisted code. The dialogue were pretty fun to voice out and picture like a western. The cat and mouse between the three main characters were structured very well. McCarthy is a great writer, changing the western genre in his own way.

The investigations were pretty interesting, the MO and connections to Reacher were unsettling, but the visitor herself could've brought more to the story instead of accidentally dying from a blow from Reacher. It would've been interesting to see some dialogue from Lamarr or some analysis as she was caught, but they just wrote her as money hungry and angry about an inheritance she didn't receive. It made no sense because she drove all across the country to murder and "hypnotize" women even though she was described as poor. The ending was way too rushed. There was a better analysis on Reacher's nomadic nature than the other books, since he's dealing with a house he wants to abandon just to roam around and his Jodie that makes him want to settle down.

Amazing novel, it kept the mystery consistent with the addition of characters such as Picard, Paul and the Kliner family, and the death of several potential leads which adds a hopelessness to the reader like the death of his big brother Joe.