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The Bourne Ascendancy (2014)

by Eric Van Lustbader(Favorite Author)

3.61 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1455577537 (ISBN13: 9781455577538)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Grand Central Publishing

series

Jason Bourne

review 1: I was about to leave the series after the bizarre Retribution, Dominion, Imperative....and others in which the plot was completely unfeasible with Bourne dealing with strange people (some weird Mexican drug dealers, their wives, daughters, Chinese politicians in alliance with rogue Mossad officers...), with even more bizarre friends...I was wondering where was the spirit of the series and decided to read Ascendancy just to say good bye, and it was not bad. Moreover it was good; some old characters like Soraya are welcomed (in the previous books she was completely misused in the story) and Jason Bourne is again similar to what he was. Yet, the book has many (too many) sub-plots in which we end knowing details on the personal life of completely marginal characters and there ... moreare very long digressions (like Soraya's stories to her daughter) which make the reading slow and perhaps unnecessarily polluted with non important issues. Also, some characters are carried to some completely unlikely extremes (the last reactions of Magnus both with Cam and Asshir are out of place).I would say that there is hope in the series if the author tries to keep the stories like this one, instead of introducing bizarre enemies like Maceo Encarnacion or Severus Domina...my god!!!
review 2: Thumbs down. Great for a comfortable read while recovering from exhaustion or a tedious plane trip, but the prose in this one is so purple it seemed bruised, slowing the pace of the whole thing to a crawl. I got tired of people getting tied up all the time, I waited for the hold-your-breath moments, and I wanted to really care about somebody--well, yes, I cared for Aashir. Otherwise, blah. Disappointing for Bourne fans! less

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