Blue moon

Maybe it is me, maybe it is Mr. Child. Or maybe it is time for our favorite knight in drab armor to stop wandering across the country, rescuing the good folks and punishing (read, killing) the bad ones in droves... Reading the book, I strongly felt for the first time that I most probably will not be looking forward to the next Jack Reacher book.

Where do I start? The plot is simplistic and stilted. I get it - the Author is trying to keep up with modern narratives, but some research is granted. No one expects fully realistic depiction of modern political or technological complexity, but having it at the level of pre-teen book makes it read ... exactly like the latter (which is the case here.) It strongly reeks of something coming up from a "Writing 101" class rather than from an accomplished writer. In all, I don't see any effort made by the author to come up with a plot that shows some amount of labor.

Same with the writing style. Mr. Child is no Nabokov but in this book writing feel particularly lazy, with short, repeating sentences, lacking any degree of sophistication.

In sum: not recommended even if (especially if) you are a big fan of Jack Reacher series. Let's just hope this was a one-time miss.