I decided to re-read one of the books that I guess you would call bro-mance books.  Spy thrillers were the All-American hero can't be slowed down or killed. Secret Service Agent Scot Harvath escapes avalanches, numerous concussions, gun battles, freezing water and saves our democracy and gets the girl in the end. 

 

I think the only reason I like books like this was that I was brought up on Roy Rogers and John Wayne movies and this genre are just like those old westerns except modernized for today's way of life.

 

I won't really review it, I just wanted to get the audio-book and read along so I had to search for the best deal.  I just wished the library system I belong to had a better and bigger choice on audio-books.  I'll probably save some money and do the next book in the series, Path of the Assassin.

 

Lions of Lucerne by Brad Thor

Scot Harvath series book 1

Trigger Warning: Racism and Harassment. 

 

Author Brad Thor has sent his followers after anyone disagreeing with his views on Ferguson and the murder of Mike Brown. @RebeccaSchinsky is being harassed and threatened by his followers (even as I type).

 

You can see his disgusting anti-black rants on his Twitter feed.

 

You can see @RebeccaSchinsky being attacked and even threatened in her twitter feed. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What a piece of garbage. 

 

 

PS Thor is published by Atira Books. Feel free to tweet and tell them how you feel about them supporting the voice of a bigot. 

 

Uhm...not sure where to start to convey all the ways this struck me as ludicrous. I read it because it was recommended in the Suspense part of The Ultimate Reading List. I probably should have been warned it wasn't for me when I saw blurbs praising it by Vince Flynn of Term Limits and Glenn Beck. But hey, as it turned out, it wasn't that it was outre right-wing that turned me off, but that when it comes down to it I'm the kind of gal who believes Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone to assassinate President John F. Kennedy. I find it easy to believe US Senators could be corrupt and in league with a filthy rich industrialist prepared to suborn them. I find it very easy to believe in politicians who are hiding sexual proclivities that would appall their constituents. What I do find hard to believe is that to defeat a bill in Congress they'd conspire to assassinate Secret Service agents and kidnap the American president and frame the surviving agent for murder. What I do find hard to believe is a US Senator who to cover up a homosexual affair orders a hit on his lover. Not impossible to believe the above mind you--just hard. It doesn't help that this book is abysmally written in a style I find headache inducing. We're talking head-hopping, intrusive dialogue tagging, jarring frequent F-bombs, designer label name-dropping and awkwardly constructed sentences that don't flow--added to that is a Barbie Doll "gorgeous" love interest and indestructible Marty Stu ex-SEAL Olympic-class skier protagonist Scot Harvath. The characters are onion-skin thin and the plot ridden with unbelievable coincidences. This is the kind of book I wish I could give negative stars to. It's not just I "didn't like it"--I hated this book and found it painful to read far into it.

You know what really pisses me off!? Abridged Audiobooks.... why would anyone think that was a good idea!?
At first I didn't notice that was what I had, so I decided to simply finish it, but I will make aan extra special effort to avoid them from now on...

(I think) this is probably a good story, but I don't really know. /sigh

Enjoyed it. Good, not great. I'll continue to read the series and see how it goes. The research into the places in the book is great but a little weak on military technology. Again, first book in the series so I won't hold it against it. Kept me entertained along the same vein as Bourne stories do.