Executive Power (Mitch Rapp) by Vince Flynn
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Book Reviews of Executive Power (Mitch Rapp)
Book Review: My first Flynn novel
Summary: 3 Stars
I found my first Vince Flynn novel an interesting read. However, I kept expecting the two plots to come together at some point and they never did. So it was basically two separate stories wrapped up in one book. A little strange. I found the complicated detail of ME politics and the details on how the special forces operate interesting. I'll read other Vince Flynn novels.Book Review: Not his best work
Summary: 3 Stars
Of all his books I found this the weakest. It's a good book, but it's a 'let down' after you've read his previous four books. Luckily he went back to his normal excellent writing for the next five books.Book Review: a lukewarm thriller with a pathetic marriage
Summary: 2 Stars
the on-the-rock marriage scenes are pathetic, making this already lukewarm and loose thriller become even worse. from the very beginning, this female washington reporter knew what mitch rapp did for a living, yet she continuously whined, intervened, demanded, complained, pried into her husband jobs and duties. what is this? trying to make rapp look more humanly realistic, making him look more like the stereotyped american husband? making us enable to enter rapp's bedroom, wathching 'war of the roses'? come on, this is a thriller, not jackie collins or danielle steele's 'honey, no sex tonight'. get rid of the nagging wife pronto! also, this novel is not up to the standard of a good thriller. a story falling apart in many ways.Book Review: Dissapointed
Summary: 2 Stars
The thumbs up from Dan Brown on the front cover enticed me to buy this book in addition to the fact that the book was considered to be a post 9-11 thriller. I almost expected the book to flow like the 24 Hours TV Series, but instead it turned out to be a jumble of different sub-plots that really didn't flow well at all. Some of the characters / sub-plots (Phillippines, the love story) didn't come together quite well. The "hero" was a little too macho and not too likeable. It seemed like the author ran out of steam toward the end.
My fav character: Prince Omar!
Mark
Book Review: Forgettable
Summary: 1 Stars
I really enjoyed this author's first three books and hoped his previous one was just an aberration. Alas it doesn't seem so. This book was a true disappointment. Mitch Rapp, America's "Go to Guy", seems to be trapped in a comic strip. After being "outed" in the previous volume as a secret CIA assassin, Mitch now works at HQ but refuses to be a desk jockey and takes a "hands-on" approach when trouble erupts - guess where? - The Middle East. (There's a sub-plot involving American hostages in the Philippines which has no bearing on the story except to put Mitch in a steamy jungle wearing camouflage paint.) Previous reviews have suggested this series is reminiscent of books by Forsyth, Ludlum and Clancy, but besides the label "International Thriller", this reader doesn't see it - particularly with this book and its predecessor. This book has none of the subtlety, intricacies of multiple plots, technical knowledge or even character development those authors' books contain. There's no individual style or identity here, just plain vanilla - and stale vanilla at that. As an aside I don't ever remember such a negative outcry by readers concerning a character, (Mitch's new wife), as I've witnessed with this series. And though I agree with the majority, I found this character more obnoxious in the previous book - for the simple fact that she was present on a lot more pages.