Thomas F. (hardtack) - , reviewed on 3/26/2025 + 2780 more book reviews

When I volunteered at a thrift store working with the books, someone recommended the "Jack Reacher" series. As we were selling them for 50 cents each, I bought a bunch. Now I'm not so sure that was a good idea.

I was reading one at a pharmacy once while waiting for the pharmacists to come back off lunch break. A guy walked over to me and asked if that was my first "Jack Reacher" book, and I replied it wasn't. So he asked what I thought of them. I said I found it to be light fiction you didn't need to concentrate on, compared to the non-fiction and the really good mysteries I savored.

After reading this one I will go even further and say it's like the TV I remembered before I stopped watching TV. Reading a "Jack Reacher" novel is like chewing gum for the mind. I still have seven others left TBR which are not contiguous, not that it seems to matter in this series. I figure I'll read them over time, but I'm in no hurry and I won't be getting any more.

Furthermore, in this book I resented the way two of the women were killed. If Lee Child is beginning to embrace gore I may just trash the others. There are so many copies of this once posted here I think other members didn't feel it was a keeper either. My copy is going back to the thrift store.

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