Re. Lee Child, I am a big fan of the Jack Reacher character. Yes, he's a male wish fulfillment, a modern Conan (if you don't know, Conan is actually rather smart, more than cunning but just not book smart) but it works for me.
but it's true quite a few of the plots suck, Tripwire included. I haven't read every Reacher book but, fwiw, I liked Echo Burning (still not credible but better), The Enemy (really a notch above, actually believable). One Shot, I thought was fairly weak but the movie with Tom Cruise works well enough. The rest, I thought were weak (story wise, including The Killing Floor) or I haven't read them.
I love Abraham and _Age of Ash_ was great, but I got two books into the Alex Verus series (maybe 3?) and sort of left it. I enjoyed them well enough but just always had other things I preferred. Hearing that it's still going fairly well 12 books in makes me more confident about picking up at least a few more of them.
Re. Lee Child, I am a big fan of the Jack Reacher character. Yes, he's a male wish fulfillment, a modern Conan (if you don't know, Conan is actually rather smart, more than cunning but just not book smart) but it works for me.
but it's true quite a few of the plots suck, Tripwire included. I haven't read every Reacher book but, fwiw, I liked Echo Burning (still not credible but better), The Enemy (really a notch above, actually believable). One Shot, I thought was fairly weak but the movie with Tom Cruise works well enough. The rest, I thought were weak (story wise, including The Killing Floor) or I haven't read them.
I love Abraham and _Age of Ash_ was great, but I got two books into the Alex Verus series (maybe 3?) and sort of left it. I enjoyed them well enough but just always had other things I preferred. Hearing that it's still going fairly well 12 books in makes me more confident about picking up at least a few more of them.