Running Blind (Jack Reacher, No. 4)
by Lee Child
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Book Reviews of Running Blind (Jack Reacher, No. 4)
Book Review: fun read, strange ending
Summary: 3 Stars
This one started out well. I was soooo curious to know how and why the killer was able to kill 4 women in the same bizarre way (10 gallons of green paint in a bathtub) and getaway with no evidence left behind. It was a good setup.
Other amazon reviewers have not recieved this book as warmly as others in the series written by Lee Child, and I too thought the set-up failed to deliver a good final end, but I haven't given up checking out other Jack Reacher stories, read excellently by Dick Hill...yet.
Book Review: Light & not much mystery, but OK for airplane reading
Summary: 3 Stars
The murderer becomes clear reasonably early, exposed by peculiar behavior and a couple incongruous factlets that the author pulls out of mid-air and tosses into the story. I am usually quite good at missing such clues, but not in this case - they were too glaring.
Beyond this, there is the typical Reacher activity - chasing around, dealing with thugs, etc. And those things can be fun if you can gloss over the clues and accept the pretty much impossible method the killer uses to do in the victims.
Book Review: Reacher!
Summary: 4 Stars
As usual, Lee Child creates a very interesting and thrilling story about the "hero" Jack Reacher. This story is in the time before he took to the roads, roaming around in the States. He is living in New York, dating the love of his life and an unfortunate involvment in a restaurant owners trouble with the maffia, Reacher gets accused of murdering woman he has known as an MP in the army.
It's very good, but some parts can get a little bit boring.
Still, from me it get's 4 stars! Hard to put down!
Book Review: Perhaps the dumbest "mystery" I've ever read.
Summary: 1 Stars
About 1/3 of the way into this book it's painfully obvious who the killer is. It couldn't be that obvious right? It had to be a red herring right? Well, it wasn't. I finished the book simply so that I could see if I'd been right. Throughout the whole book obvious red flags should have... WOULD have caught the attention of any characters with enough brain power to scramble eggs. It's as if Jack Reacher's IQ is the only one high enough to add two and two together. This is a DUMB book.Book Review: The Jack Reacher Series continues
Summary: 5 Stars
I have commented on most of the Jack Reacher books. This one is fairly good; it has all the usual elements of suspense, intrigue, deduction, and revenge. It's good escape (and yes, I have used that before for these books as it is appropriate) writing that you just start reading and get in the flow of, and then suddenly you are hooked, and you have to know what happens. Childs is especially good at sucking you in to know how his hero will solve the problem(s).