good story and interesting characters with great ending.

but i felt it was a bit too: the reader is smarter then the characters and figure it all out before the supposedly super smart and well trained professionals.
which is not my favorite.
but i don’t know that was because i reread this book even though i basically didn’t remember a think -10 years or so later i can reread those types of books and i it’s basically a new read!

so i don’t know if just just remembered the twist too well or if it was really that clear and the characters just slow on the uptake?
or if this type of twist was just done a few times since this book was written and so i was familiar with it because of that?
not sure.

what i found a bit grading was that the author really liked some words and kept repeating them over and over and over again.

for example he loved “nosed” and using “right” in conversations.
so every time a car was mentioned -which was quiet a lot- he would say that it nosed out of the parking spot, nosed in the street, nosed around the corner, nosed into the parking spot...
and he would let every character that said something or explained something end it with, right?
so someone explained something, it had to be made clear, right?
so why not make it super obvious that i was that, right?
and who cares that it’s not realistic to have very single character talk like that, right?
because who doesn’t end at least every second sentence they are saying with right, right?

those are just the two that really stood out to me after the first 100 pages and it got the point where i wasn’t sure if i would make a fun game out it and try to guess how often those words would appear until the end of the book or just screech in frustration every time it came up!


it’s not a bad book.
i so wish the supposedly super well trained jack reacher would have actually used a bit more of his brain and that why some things could have been avoided that happens but i guess that would have cut pages.

i also expected a bit more action?
this book and the series in total was always talked up to me as this action packed “fight for your life with your learned army tricks” rambo kind of story.

and while there was a few fights and a good amount of deaths it was pretty slow moving in between.

it took at least 200 pages until some action happened.

which isn’t to say it’s bad, i just expected more?

i did like that we get a reveal of what happens with the guitar player Reacher wanted to learn about, though i wish it would have also be made clear that the police would investigate that once this crazy case was over to make sure that it wouldn’t continue being an unsolved disappearance.

i also really liked that the one female cop in this story wasn’t just ornamental. sure she was also the sexual partner of reacher in this book, those things are always in male written books like this. apparently it’s one fantasy no male writer can let go of that once a male character of theirs arrives in a town at least one woman has to be attracted to the guy in 3 seconds flat.
but beside that predictable little thing, the female character actually brought something to the story. she was smart and had ideas that actually made sense and pushed the case forward.
that as nice to see.
i also liked how it was brought to a close at the end of the book.

overall it’s a good book and a solid story.

i am interested to see where this is going and want to know if each book is about reacher coming through a place and being accused of something or being thrown into an investigation he doesn’t really want to be part of? or if there will be less of a predictable pattern to it.