Author: Alex Berenson
Grade: C
Recommended To: Magicians, soldiers,
I just finished the 5th book in this John Wells series and I have a piece of advice for Berenson: Stop writing a book a year, your writing suffers if you do that.
This book is okay. It isn't great. It is actually about the same as the other John Wells books, so average. This book is about the internal politics of Saudi Arabia and I had a lot of trouble getting into it. I started the book a month ago, put it down and just finished it yesterday.
The problem is that the story just isn't that compelling. Do I really care if part of the Saudi royal family is trying to bring down the other half? Not really. Do I really care that John Wells has some "moral dilemma" about killing people. No, that's his job. He was an undercover soldier with the terrorists a couple of books ago, you can't convince me now that he has feelings and has to "add 6 more men to his death list." If he doesn't like killing people, or at least isn't bothered by it, then he should find a new line of work, and then where would the story series be?
Berenson has this annoying habit of attempting to create suspense by starting a sentence -
And then continuing that sentence on the next line. Um, stop that. It is super annoying and I actually add pauses into my reading, so then part of the time I forget what I was reading in the line above if there is a pause. It isn't suspenseful and it isn't a new way to write books. It is just dumb.
This is a good book for someone who likes action novels where there is a strong hero. It is a fast read and kept my interest after I got back into the book.
Happy Reading!!
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