Stephanie Jane recenzis Three Days To Forever de Lauren Carr
An entertaining read
4 steloj
Three Days To Forever is the ninth volume in Lauren Carr's 'Mac Faraday' mystery series. After the classic crime vibe of The Murders At Astaire Castle, the previous Mac Faraday novel I read, Three Days To Forever takes us readers deep into military thriller territory. I will admit that this isn't one of my favourite genres, but I am impressed with how effortlessly Carr can switch from one genre to another whilst still maintaining the integrity of the characters that I have come to love. In this story the juxtaposition of wedding chaos, such as horrendous hairstyles, with an international terrorism crisis makes for an exhilarating read!
Everybody coming to Spencer Mountain for the society wedding of the year does mean that I had a lot of characters to keep track of, not always successfully, and I did feel that my favourites, such as Archie Monday and even Gnarly did …
Three Days To Forever is the ninth volume in Lauren Carr's 'Mac Faraday' mystery series. After the classic crime vibe of The Murders At Astaire Castle, the previous Mac Faraday novel I read, Three Days To Forever takes us readers deep into military thriller territory. I will admit that this isn't one of my favourite genres, but I am impressed with how effortlessly Carr can switch from one genre to another whilst still maintaining the integrity of the characters that I have come to love. In this story the juxtaposition of wedding chaos, such as horrendous hairstyles, with an international terrorism crisis makes for an exhilarating read!
Everybody coming to Spencer Mountain for the society wedding of the year does mean that I had a lot of characters to keep track of, not always successfully, and I did feel that my favourites, such as Archie Monday and even Gnarly did sometimes feel sidelined by the newcomers. That said though, there certainly wasn't ever a dull moment in Three Days To Forever and it was good to see David O'Callaghan stepping out from Mac's shadow. I appreciated as well how sensitively Carr handled the Islamist terrorism story angle. While the popular Western view of ISIS operatives had influenced certain characters, others were far from that preconception and a moment was taken to show how damaging that ideology is to other Muslims as well.
While I wasn't as enamoured with Three Days To Forever as I was with some of the other books in this series, the brilliant Shadow Of Murder for example, it was an entertaining read with a good blend of excitement, disaster and humour.