Brilliance
Apr. 10th, 2022 01:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alobearBrilliance by Marcus Sakey was recommended to me in a book on outlining I read on retreat a couple of weeks ago, as an example of a well-constructed story.
It's about a world where a small number of children have started being born with extraordinary abilities. Nick Cooper is one of these 'brilliants' and works for an agency that tracks down those with abilities, who are using them for nefarious purposes. His biggest target is John Smith, a terrorist responsible for a massacre several years before. Nick goes undercover to track down Smith, but starts to learn that things are not necessarily as he has been told.
I listened to the audiobook, which was pacy and well-read. I connected to the protagonist, got invested in his quest, and certainly felt the twists and turns along with him. It's not the best book I've ever read, but it was engaging and definitely well-constructed. My only real criticism is that all the female characters are unfeasibly attractive and the protagonist's view of them is rather objectifying in places.
Still, the story rattled along and kept me interested throughout.
It's about a world where a small number of children have started being born with extraordinary abilities. Nick Cooper is one of these 'brilliants' and works for an agency that tracks down those with abilities, who are using them for nefarious purposes. His biggest target is John Smith, a terrorist responsible for a massacre several years before. Nick goes undercover to track down Smith, but starts to learn that things are not necessarily as he has been told.
I listened to the audiobook, which was pacy and well-read. I connected to the protagonist, got invested in his quest, and certainly felt the twists and turns along with him. It's not the best book I've ever read, but it was engaging and definitely well-constructed. My only real criticism is that all the female characters are unfeasibly attractive and the protagonist's view of them is rather objectifying in places.
Still, the story rattled along and kept me interested throughout.
