Book log 2019 #11 - Forever And A Day
Dec. 15th, 2019 11:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lonemagpie11) FOREVER AND A DAY by Anthony Horowitz.
Yeah, finished this a few weeks ago and keep meaning to post about it. The latest Bond book isn’t bad – Horowitz gets the tone, I prefer the period-set ones, and it isn’t weighed down by an unnecessary character return like the last one was. That said, the plot is basically the film version of LALD, the fact that it’s a prequel kind of makes Sixtine’s fate obvious from the get-go (and, frankly, too similar to Vesper’s – yeah, spoilers, it came out 18 months ago), and I got kind of put off early by a police report describing a person being lifted off his feet by a pistol shot- something that works for acinematic imagery in narration, but no police report would say cos it doesn’t happen in real life (the physics don’t support it). And I say that someone who’s used the trope in general narration. In the main, though, it rasonable entertainment as a Bond fix.
I did start reading the Star Wars zombie novel Death Troopers, but TBH the endless buildup with the teen siblings and lack of SW feel beyond filling it with species names from that ‘s verse is boring the shit out of me...
Yeah, finished this a few weeks ago and keep meaning to post about it. The latest Bond book isn’t bad – Horowitz gets the tone, I prefer the period-set ones, and it isn’t weighed down by an unnecessary character return like the last one was. That said, the plot is basically the film version of LALD, the fact that it’s a prequel kind of makes Sixtine’s fate obvious from the get-go (and, frankly, too similar to Vesper’s – yeah, spoilers, it came out 18 months ago), and I got kind of put off early by a police report describing a person being lifted off his feet by a pistol shot- something that works for acinematic imagery in narration, but no police report would say cos it doesn’t happen in real life (the physics don’t support it). And I say that someone who’s used the trope in general narration. In the main, though, it rasonable entertainment as a Bond fix.
I did start reading the Star Wars zombie novel Death Troopers, but TBH the endless buildup with the teen siblings and lack of SW feel beyond filling it with species names from that ‘s verse is boring the shit out of me...