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Midnight In Madrid (2009)

by Noel Hynd(Favorite Author)

3.3 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0310278724 (ISBN13: 9780310278726)

languge

English

genre

Mystery & Thriller

publisher

Zondervan

series

The Russian Trilogy

review 1: I read this on my kindle. It's the second book in the Russian trilogy. Both, the first and second were freebies. I almost deleted it from my kindle because I really didn't care much for the first book. I decided to go ahead and give it a try and I was pleasantly surprised. It was much better than the first one. Agent, Alexandra DeLuca is on vacation in Spain, trying to get over the bad events, that happened in the first book. While there, she gets a call from her boss to investigate the theft of an ancient relic from a museum in Madrid. She thinks this will be a simple case, but it turns out to be a lot more than she bargained for and once again, her life is in danger. I liked that the lead character is female, with this genre, they are generally m... moreale.
review 2: ughhh - was more like several history and philosophy lectures lightly framed by an action-thriller story. Every main character seemed to need to share about 20 pages (or at least 20 kindle pages) worth of barely relevant socio-political history. The protagonist had to do this several times - I was very tempted to skip these pages when I got to them - I am very interested in history -but that is NOT why I am reading the book - I want a concise story with relevant information that moves the story along and not drag it down. Most of the information would have been better as footnotes. The story, itself, was pretty good - except for the ending where for some reason there was thrown in some romantic stuff that didn't really fit either character involved and didn't have enough leading up to it to warrant the apparent strenth of feeling. Overall the main plot was good and I wish that the author had dropped the history/philosophy/ethics soap boxes and stuck with the plot - then I would have greatly enjoyed it rather than dragging myself through lectures I didn't know I signed up for. less

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