Review - The Righteous Men
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wilderthanThe Righteous Men (Sam Bourne)
Pretty much like reading a Dan Brown book -- somehow the whole style could almost have been his. Mum said she thought Sam Bourne was better: I'm not sure, maybe a little. It's enjoyable enough as light reading, a page-turner, a pot-boiler, whatever. The sense of urgency was a bit difficult -- for some people in the story, it was the end of the world; for the sceptical reader, and for the main character, it was "just" one woman and her unborn child. A bit lacking, maybe, given that the focus on mystery meant I wasn't very invested in the characters.
The background is, of course, some kind of cult. They emerge quite late in the day, really, and I'm not sure I really kept up with all that was happening. Of course, you can partially blame the huge amounts of information for that. By about halfway through I was letting a lot of it breeze past me...
The writing is okay, perhaps a bit better than Dan Brown's (I refer you, as I have done before, to this article: Dan Brown's writing is, in summary, shockingly bad), though some lines just made me wince. E.g. "Will turned his face into a question mark." I get what it means, but it's such a ridiculous image...
Involving enough, anyway, but nothing really special.
Pretty much like reading a Dan Brown book -- somehow the whole style could almost have been his. Mum said she thought Sam Bourne was better: I'm not sure, maybe a little. It's enjoyable enough as light reading, a page-turner, a pot-boiler, whatever. The sense of urgency was a bit difficult -- for some people in the story, it was the end of the world; for the sceptical reader, and for the main character, it was "just" one woman and her unborn child. A bit lacking, maybe, given that the focus on mystery meant I wasn't very invested in the characters.
The background is, of course, some kind of cult. They emerge quite late in the day, really, and I'm not sure I really kept up with all that was happening. Of course, you can partially blame the huge amounts of information for that. By about halfway through I was letting a lot of it breeze past me...
The writing is okay, perhaps a bit better than Dan Brown's (I refer you, as I have done before, to this article: Dan Brown's writing is, in summary, shockingly bad), though some lines just made me wince. E.g. "Will turned his face into a question mark." I get what it means, but it's such a ridiculous image...
Involving enough, anyway, but nothing really special.
