![]() ![]() ![]() Search for: Search Follow Fuldapocalypse Fiction on WordPress. Especially since it feels like the wrong kind of thriller for its writing style. But that nature, mixed with its huge amounts of descriptions that don’t even feel like they were intended as padding, isn’t exactly my cup of tea. Three decades after that terrifying night, Atlee Pine works for the FBI. So I can understand its appeal to a certain kind of reader, and thus its author’s success. It's seared into Atlee Pine's memory: the kidnapper's chilling rhyme as he chose between six-year-old Atlee and her twin sister, Mercy. It’s like it ended up, either accidentally or deliberately, being the kind of book that checks all the thriller boxes, but without too much adrenaline. The words that came into my mind were “decaf thriller”. And the way this is pulled off is-well, something. Of course, cheap thrillers don’t succeed or fail based on concept. ![]() About the only thing distinctive I can say is that instead of the opponents being TERRORISTS! they were instead part of a CONSPIRACY! Wow! It even had a climax featuring the most stale “shocking” item in the genre, a nuclear bomb. I was right (although the action scenes are not gratuitous).Īs the book progressed, it went from the smaller and more personal tale promised in the opening scene to a very, very rote cheap thriller plot. This made me think “this is a justification for her being able to take on bigger men hand to hand”. 3.91 65,268 ratings4,542 reviews Introducing a remarkable new character from 1 New York Times bestselling writer David Baldacci: Atlee Pine, an FBI agent with special skills assigned to the remote wilds of the southwestern United States who must confront a new threat. The second was talking about how built-up and muscular the heroine was. It doesn’t feel like it’s the best for a thriller. Introducing a remarkable new character from 1 New York Times bestselling writer David Baldacci: Atlee Pine, an FBI agent with special skills assigned to the remote wilds of the southwestern United States who must confront a new threat. The first thing that caught my eye was how dense and well, overdescriptive, for lack of a better word, the writing style is. Introducing a remarkable new character from number-one New York Times best-selling writer David Baldacci: Atlee Pine, an FBI agent with special skills assigned to the remote wilds of the Southwestern United States who must confront a new threat.and an old nightmare. Long Road to Mercy is the first in his Atlee Pine series of thrillers starring the titular FBI agent. In another one of those “big name authors that are nonetheless novel to me”, I turned my attention to David Baldacci. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |