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Carregando... The Henchmen's Book Club (edição: 2011)de Danny King
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Hysterical. I need to read more by this author! ( ) This one is proving a bit difficult for me to review. The book starts out with a very meaty hook, capturing my attention right out of the gate. The pacing overall wasn’t too bad, with the action nicely spaced throughout. Characters come and go with surprising frequency, leaving me several times uncertain or unable to remember if this was a particular characters first appearance or not. As a side note, there isn’t even a token main female character anywhere in the entire book. In fact, there is only ONE place in the entire novel where a girl shows up at all, and she features for all of about three pages. Mark travels around the globe over the course of the book, with each ‘henching’ section reading like a short novella. At first it doesn’t seem like there is an overall plot arc, but each part melds together into a whole at the end. Each of Mark’s henching jobs is ruined by the appearance of one of two super-spies. Jack Tempest – British spy extra-ordinary James Bond clone or Rip Dunbar – a foul mouthed American agent (I don’t read/watch spy movies so I’m not sure who he might be modeled after). Mark’s interactions with the two spies are the highlights of the book. I really wanted to see more of these. Jack Tempest in particular. This book I think suffers the most for lack of a villain. Mark’s character is a bit… directionless. He floats around where life takes him, and he isn’t struggling towards any kind of goal until the end. And even that goal was short term. I would have liked to see more play and interaction between Mark, Tempest, and Rip. I honestly think this novel would have worked better as a serial, with each henching job a section – with the climax at the end being the appearance of the rival spy. The reveal at the end wasn’t enough to seal the deal, and my attention wandered near the end, as I wondered if the book was actually going anywhere. It wasn’t until the very end that you discover what everything was leading up to. Overall I give it three stars for at least keeping me entertained until the end. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
Mark Jones is a henchman for hire. He guards bunkers, patrols perimeters and stands around in a boiler suit waiting to get knocked out by Ninjas. This is his job.He has worked for some of the most notorious super-villains the world has ever known - Dr Thalassocrat, Victor Soliman, Polonius Crump; Mark was with each of them when they met their makers at the hands of British Secret Service super-spy, Jack Tempest, and lived to tell the tale - if not pay the bills.Still for every hour under gunfire there are weeks and months of sitting around on monorails waiting for things to kick off so Jones starts a book club with his fellow henchmen.It was only ever meant to pass the time.It was never meant to save the world.From the BAFTA-nominated screenwriter of Wild Bill and the best-selling novel The Burglar Diaries. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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