Book 15 - Adrian McKinty "The Chain"

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Adrian McKinty "The Chain" (Orion)




I was very intrigued by the plot. Someone kidnaps your daughter and to get her back you need to pay a ransom and kidnap someone else to take her place, to keep The Chain living. Certainly not your every day mystery thriller story.

With this plot, it is easy to assume that at the end, the daughter gets saved, the bad guy gets caught or killed, and that the hero will be the mother. It is crucial that the story takes you from beginning to end through a rollercoaster of emotions and thrills. And that's where this book fails.

The character are poorly developed. At no point in time, you feel the stress of the main characters or the fear of the victims. The bad guys don't even get on your head because, again, the characters are poorly developed. Protagonists get out of difficult situations without a sweat. Things happen, sure, but most of them don't matter.

I am surprised about the good reviews it has received, but to it's an absolute skip and not worth your time.