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Siege (2012)

by Simon Kernick(Favorite Author)

4.06 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0593062906 (ISBN13: 9780593062906)

languge

English

genre

Mystery & Thriller

publisher

Bantam Press

series

Scope

review 1: Inspired by the 2008 events in Mumbai, this book walks through a single day in which a terrorist attack forever alters the lives of those involved. As a group of mercenaries detonate bombs in a shopping plaza and train station eventually taking control of a posh London hotel, police and hostages must grapple with their fears both past and present in an effort to survive. A hotel manager, grieved father and police commissioner offer substantial back-stories intertwined with non-stop action to make this book a true page-turner. Good and evil blur as the motives behind the terrorists are revealed one-by-one in a true-to-life mirror of the complexity of religion, power and money in the 21st century. Being a huge fan of Bruce Willis’ Die Hard character John McClane, I was... more unabashedly rooting for wild card protagonist Scope while secretly knowing that the good guy was sure to win in the end. The cover art depicting a Georgian style hotel exhaling thick plumes of black smoke provides a stark contrast between the exclusive luxury of wealth and the brutal indifference of terror that will appeal to teens and adults alike.
review 2: Men zegt dat de boeken van Kernick echte pageturners zijn, en dat klopt: er zit een rotvaart in de beschrijving van de belegering van dit Londense hotel. Helaas zat er waarschijnlijk ook een rotvaart in het schrijven van dit boek, want het vertoont een eerder erbarmelijke schrijfstijl en oppervlakkige uitdieping van de personages. Pluspunten dus voor het verhaal en de vaart die erachter zit, minpunten voor de schrijfstijl en het taalgebruik (en de originaliteit). less

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