The author who occupies slot number 2 in the list of my favorite popular fiction authors has the nom de plume, Lee Child. Child writes the Jack Reacher novels. There are now 20 in the series.
I stopped by a local library and found the new Reacher on the new books shelf. I actually audibly said, "Ooooooooh," and grabbed it as if someone behind me was about to try to push me aside to take it.
It was early Saturday morning. There was no one around.
When I got home, I went to Amazon to read customer reviews. I found what I expected. There were about four times as many fives and fours as ones and twos.
I began to read some of the reviews rated helpful and I'm seeing that this one is darker than most. And that concerns me.
I take Paul's, whatever is true, noble, right, pure... seriously. And, I avoid that which dark and evil.
I considered trashing the book entirely but I didn't. My antennae are up, though. I may toss this one aside if there is too much darkness.
Update on Reacher: I got about a fifth of the way through the book and still didn't encounter the darkness. Reacher is still trying to figure out what is going on. But I decided to put the book aside, at least for the moment. You can't unring a bell. I also checked out a Rosato and DiNunzio novel. Lots of estrogen but set in Pennsylvania/Philly and I've been to many of the locations mentioned in the stories and the plots are usually decent.
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What could be better?!
In the end, I did finish the Reacher novel. The bad guys were evil, but good defeated evil, that is, Reacher defeated evil, as he always does.
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