Author: Terry Hayes Genre: , ,
Rating

This was recommended by a friend.

If you enjoy crime / thriller books then this needs to be on your to be read pile.

I had not heard much about this book prior to the recommendation so I was a little worried when I saw it was 900 pages.

However, it was brilliant! Highly recommended…..the pages just keep on turning.

Hard to believe it is a debut book too!

I will certainly be buying any future books by this author.

One Response so far.

  1. Louise says:

    I initially enjoyed reading this book BUT there were numerous things that bugged me about it and the more I thought about them, the more I disliked it. Firstly, there are a lot superfluous scenes that are obviously written with a movie in mind. For example, there is a chase which ends up in a boat warehouse with lots of expensive boats crashing into each other. This lasts for several pages and I found that I was so bored with it that I jumped a couple of pages. It was a pure action movie scene, that you could imagine back in the 90’s with Mel Gibson or Arnold Schwarzenegger and it did not work at all in the book.
    Secondly, the plot brings together a number of coincidences that are unbelievable, yes I know I’m talking about a book, make believe but it was seriously flawed and the New York murder took us on a 300 page detour. The New York murder could have been extricated from the terrorist plot to form another book. In fact the way the book ended leads me to believe that this plot will continue in another book.
    Lastly and the thing that bothers me the most, is the women in the book. This really does feel like a 90s action movie throwback. The women are seriously 2 dimensional. They are often eye candy to Pilgrim, there’s lots of references to “boobs” (seriously? How old are you?) and there are lots of women stereotypes. There is quote after quote of cringe worthy references to women for example;
    “The secretary was one of those women where everything about her was extravagant – her gestures, her boobs straining against a tight blouse, her make-up, her as*s in a pencil skirt. The moods, too, one suspected.”
    The more you re-read them the more annoying they get.
    This book is a page turner and many people have/will enjoy it but for me there are just too many flaws that spoil the initial enjoyment.

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