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It's likely genre fatigue and fair play to anyone who can actually write a book that people will buy, but it just was not for me.
I think I'm going to really cut back on that style of book.
I have up on Dead Lock by Sean Black, the second in the Ryan Lock series not far from the end, when the story just kept making absurd leaps forward with just how good Lock was supposed to be and that he could save anyone, anyhow, yet could not spot the mole that I imagine even by two year old would of had a good guess at.
Again it's likely fatigue, but I just find that with this lone hero genre the books gets a bit claustrophobic, just following the same character, you get no breaks. It's what I like about the Jack Ryan novels, yes it's focus is on Jack but they are proper ensemble books and as such you don't get the same "familiarity breeds contempt" feeling
So many of these books are so interchangeable. I pretty much guarantee if you took half a dozen of the various series and read the first three books every character would have faced the same situations, braved the same outcomes and had the same relationships.
I'm going to stick with Reacher and the McNab Nick Stone books, but I intend now to try and either avoid the genre or at least find ones that have more regular and more featured supporting characters.
I'm ok for now though as just discovered Simon Kernick (one of the only writers of UK crime that I can actually read and enjoy) has a couple of books out that I have missed |
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Author: Garrett
25-11-2019 04:04:11
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