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Alpha (2012)

by Greg Rucka(Favorite Author)

3.69 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0316182281 (ISBN13: 9780316182287)

languge

English

genre

Mystery & Thriller

publisher

Mulholland Books

series

Jad Bell

review 1: Highly predictable but entertaining thriller set in an amusement park amalgam of Disney, Universal, and 6 Flags. No mystery here. All the bad guys are easily identifiable, as revealed early-on by Rucka or to anyone who reads lots of these types of books. Even the protagonist's guilt was predictable and, consequently, overdone. That was the primary annoyance in this novel and the reason I gave it 3 stars instead of 4. This is a great beach read - light and fun.
review 2: If the plot involves a theme park, I am going to read it, but I have been continually disappointed in the books so far. This is my first Rucka book and I was not enamored. I felt like I had been dropped into the middle of a series and was not reading the first one of the series. Bottom line, I... more found it confusing. So many characters that were not fleshed out, so they remained one diminsional and I had problems relating to them. Rucka tried to hard in making WilsonVille come alive but it became an overwhelming read with all of the cartoon characters that I could just not visualize. What attracted me to the book, the theme park, became a confusing setting. Why not make it a straightforward theme park? There were some moments of brilliance, but for the most part, I was struggling to keep up. I won't be reading the next in the series. The only reason why I read this one was because of the theme park setting. There are too many other "great" military type characters created by David Baldacii and Robert Crais that I don't need to continue this storyline. less

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