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Reacher disappointment
Jan. 25th, 2019 12:14 pmI was very excited recently when I realised there was a new Jack Reacher book by Lee Child that I hadn't yet read. Hearing Jeff Harding's voice on the audio recording immediately made me smile as he epitomises Reacher in my head so much that I can't listen to him reading anything else.
But Past Tense turned out to be a huge disappointment. In a 12.5 hour book, basically nothing happened at all for the first 10 hours, and after that it was just faffing around in the woods and lots of killing. Reacher wasn't involved in the 'bad thing going on in the small town' at all until the 10-hour point, and the 'bad thing' didn't actually get started until then anyway.
I was glad that the victims of the 'bad thing' worked hard to help themselves and had some reasonable success in this area prior to and alongside Reacher's intervention, but none of the plot was very interesting, and the repetitive nature of the narrative got very irritating long before the end.
I hope this is just a blip in a usually highly entertaining book series, and that Lee Child hasn't gone permanently off the boil...
But Past Tense turned out to be a huge disappointment. In a 12.5 hour book, basically nothing happened at all for the first 10 hours, and after that it was just faffing around in the woods and lots of killing. Reacher wasn't involved in the 'bad thing going on in the small town' at all until the 10-hour point, and the 'bad thing' didn't actually get started until then anyway.
I was glad that the victims of the 'bad thing' worked hard to help themselves and had some reasonable success in this area prior to and alongside Reacher's intervention, but none of the plot was very interesting, and the repetitive nature of the narrative got very irritating long before the end.
I hope this is just a blip in a usually highly entertaining book series, and that Lee Child hasn't gone permanently off the boil...
