2009 Books
Mar. 22nd, 2009 04:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tvordljTwo very different books that i've read recently.
7. Consent to Kill - Vince Flynn
I borrowed this one from Mom who liked it. It is the standard-issue Assassin vs Assassin, really. Arab puts out hit on CIA super assassin because said assassin killed his son who was deeply involved in terrorism. Hires a German ex-spy who contacts assassin-for-hire couple to kill famous CIA assassin. As luck would have it, SuperSpy doesn't die but his pregnant wife does. Vengeance shall be mine, sayeth the SuperSpy and the chase is on. It was ok, easy reading, fairly predictable.
8. A Step in the Dark - Judith Lennox
This is more the type of book i usually read. Young widow, Bess, has to leave her infant son with mother-in-law and travels from India to England just before WWI. Mother-in-law of course is determined to keep the grandson and after the war, by the time the mother sees her son again, he doesn't know her. She goes on to marry two more times and have more kids until the first son shows up on her doorstep 20-some years later. We follow her life, trials and tribulations, the life of her older daughter, see into the lives of her other daughters a bit. What happens to the oldest son and a man who latches on to him as a meal ticket/best friend who also has some prior connections to Bess. The two men both disappear with in 6 months of each othe and then the book jumps forward about 23 years, during WWII and after and we get a quick run down of what happens to whom for the duration. Really slowed down the book and I skimmed a lot of that. Yeah, yeah, get back to the story. I had already predicted the last secret of the book so the end was a bit of an anti-climax. I liked the first half of the book better than the last half. And at the end, there was one glaring error, i think. I may be wrong but i didn't think Heathrow airport was called Heathrow until the 70s? I have an old tour book from the 50s and they referred to it as London airport. The last of the book ends in the early 1960s and there's a reference to Heathrow.
7. Consent to Kill - Vince Flynn
I borrowed this one from Mom who liked it. It is the standard-issue Assassin vs Assassin, really. Arab puts out hit on CIA super assassin because said assassin killed his son who was deeply involved in terrorism. Hires a German ex-spy who contacts assassin-for-hire couple to kill famous CIA assassin. As luck would have it, SuperSpy doesn't die but his pregnant wife does. Vengeance shall be mine, sayeth the SuperSpy and the chase is on. It was ok, easy reading, fairly predictable.
8. A Step in the Dark - Judith Lennox
This is more the type of book i usually read. Young widow, Bess, has to leave her infant son with mother-in-law and travels from India to England just before WWI. Mother-in-law of course is determined to keep the grandson and after the war, by the time the mother sees her son again, he doesn't know her. She goes on to marry two more times and have more kids until the first son shows up on her doorstep 20-some years later. We follow her life, trials and tribulations, the life of her older daughter, see into the lives of her other daughters a bit. What happens to the oldest son and a man who latches on to him as a meal ticket/best friend who also has some prior connections to Bess. The two men both disappear with in 6 months of each othe and then the book jumps forward about 23 years, during WWII and after and we get a quick run down of what happens to whom for the duration. Really slowed down the book and I skimmed a lot of that. Yeah, yeah, get back to the story. I had already predicted the last secret of the book so the end was a bit of an anti-climax. I liked the first half of the book better than the last half. And at the end, there was one glaring error, i think. I may be wrong but i didn't think Heathrow airport was called Heathrow until the 70s? I have an old tour book from the 50s and they referred to it as London airport. The last of the book ends in the early 1960s and there's a reference to Heathrow.
