Review: A Bit Stretched
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 10 15, 2013
Nick Pirog's main character, Thomas Prescott has a good self-effacing sense of humor.  That is about the only modest thing about him.  This pretty unremarkable guy ends up a super hero without really trying.  Pirog's other entries in this series were much better for the simple reason that they were at least somewhat believable.In AFIKAANS, everything is way over the top.  It is fine to suspend reality, but this book is way over the top with unlikely coincidences and convenient occurrences.  The premise of a cruise ship taken hostage by pirates in the Indian Ocean is a good one.  So also the pirates' expressed ransom - huge aid for South African AIDS victims.  Everything works until Prescott starts saving the day.  Then it becomes too close to an action comic book.This is decent escape reading, but there are just too many head-shaking moments.