Review: Disappointing
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 12 10, 2010
Clare London's "72 Hours" was recommended to me, I wish I could do the same here. Now it is not a bad novel, however, it is not the five star book I was led to believe. First, the opening is SLOW -- too slow for a "action-type" book. There is too much telling and not enough showing early on in the book and the first person narrative slows the pace down even further. Snails are quicker than how this storyline evolves and the bad guy was easily figured out.As a reader I did not connect with the narrator, Tanner MacKay, nor did I find his relationship with his black ops partner, Niall Sutherland interesting. Their sex scenes that happen later on in the book are hot, but by then it was too little, too late. Plus that part was seemingly out of character for two trained agents -- they have copious amounts of sex waiting for the bad guy to arrive -- it seemed very unrealistic.All in all, if you are a fan of Clare London's work, buy it. If you are trying her out for the first time, I'd skip this one and instead buy her novel "True Colors," as I really enjoyed that book.