Just finished Lee Child’s Never Go Back. Another Reacher book, another sleepless night, but there are few books around that will keep you going this way, leaving you yearning for more the moment you finished it. What always makes me smile in these books is that Reacher is a moving encyclopedia, knowing all the right things, some of them completely unexpected (and unlikely). That said, the final revelation in the book about nature of the puzzle they’re trying to solve seems like something both MP brains (Reacher and Susan Turner) should’ve guessed earlier in the game, but the extent and reason were a surprise (it did make me raise an eyebrow). The action flows, the story moves old and new commanding officer of 110th MP unit through a number of places, from one trouble to another, and we get to see Reacher challenging the world around him, while he turns from hunted into a hunter once again, creating unlikely alliances, forming a puzzle from invisible pieces. The action starts from the beginning, and it doesn’t stop till the closing pages of the book, its quantity and quality, and especially the humor element should please almost all Reacher fans, so I’d give it four out of five stars. We get Reacher that acts with a bit more caution than before (older-smarter?) and that maybe desires to have a kid of his own. I’m beginning to think that staying on the road might not be rewarding enough in a time to come, cause it’s simply not the same when someone who is thirty-something travels around all the time, almost without stopping, and someone who is around fifty even tries to do it (and he’s not getting any younger, but we can try to ignore his age for some time yet). I can’t even imagine what would fourteen years on the road, without real base, without real care, do to a person. Even the professional drivers need time to relax and be away from the road. However, we all love Supermanly side of Reacher, it gives him very random reasons to be on so many different places and in so many troubles. And finally, there’s that little intriguing spice thrown at our feet – that Reacher military status isn’t clear, which on its own gives material for another book. Or ten. Hopefully soon, and I say this knowing very well that we’ll wait some nice time for another one, cause this kind of books can’t be written over the night. Bring ‘em on, Mr. Child: novels, novellas, short stories, as many as possible!
Posted on: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 14:47:39 +0000
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