Review: Rather unbelievable
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 15, 2012
As other reviewers have noted, this novel has some "Wild, Wild West" elements: secret agents and trains. Other than that, I didn't find the humor and heroics that the TV show was known for. It's rather unbelievable that Luke and Maj can actually happen across each other while traveling by train across the country. It's also unbelievable that Maj just happens to know the location of the jewel that Luke seeks. I really had trouble with the fact that Simon and Luke are able to cross the country faster on horseback than the train; both men are able to appear at the train depot before the train arrives on different occasions. If you can suspend disbelief, the story line isn't that bad. However, Luke supposedly loves Maj but constantly questions whether he can trust her--and he flip flops on the issue constantly. He decides to trust her, then changes his mind, decides he can trust her...you get the picture. There were Kindle formatting issues--which I've learned to live with when getting freebies. However, the author needed editing; there were many grammatical issues, particularly in the use of pronouns (using "I" instead of "me"). If you can get past these issues and like a nice western without sex, then this was a decent way to pass the time. Not great, but not bad.