112. Title & Author: Nothing to Lose (A Jack Reacher Novel) by Lee Child (531 pages)*Genre: Fiction--Action
Completed: 3 September 2009
Summary & Review:
While on his aimless quest to travel from Maine to California, Reacher gets sidetracked in Colorado after encountering two towns: Hope and Despair. As he is visiting Despair, he is arrested and thrown out of town which only piques his curiosity as to what the weathered residents of Despair are hiding. He soon discovers that the owner of the town, who also happens to be the minister of an End Times congregation, is set on helping the apocalypse come as soon as possible.
I kind of enjoyed the first Reacher book I read (The Hard Way, #31) and kind of enjoyed the Reacher I listened to (Bad Luck and Trouble), but this book was a different story, no pun intended. Not only was the plot stupid and unbelievable, but it was nothing more than a vehicle for Child to express his political views, e.g. that religious people are all lunatics and that the war in Iraq was nothing more than a political sham. Reacher's character goes from being Hooah-hardcore-army-loyal to defending deserters. That's a bunch of crap. In fact, this book was so obnoxious it'll be the last one I read by Child.
Rating: 1.0
0 comments:
Post a Comment