'Blue Moon' by Lee Child
'Blue Moon' by Lee Child

The good

  • The typical clean, super-easy-to-read writing style that makes Lee Child books so easy to pick up, and so hard to put down.

  • Also, as with all Jack Reacher books, this one starts off with a bit of action and mystery right out of the gate, which sucks you in and keeps you reading for a while.

  • Some decent action.

The not so good

  • Jack Reacher books always require suspending your disbelief, but this one takes it to an extreme; it felt less like Jack Reacher (competence porn with a few well-placed action scenes) and more like Arnold Schwarzenegger (80s action flick with a huge body count). I’ll avoid any spoilers, but I’ll just say that I was shaking my head a lot in this one, as it got fairly absurd.

  • The characters, both good guys and bad guys, started off feeling like real, fully-fleshed out people, but then slowly turned into little more than flat plot devices, not reacting like any human would, and mostly just there to move the plot forward.

Rating: 3 stars