My latest book review: ( a new blog post real soon)

The Affair by Lee Child

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I started, with much anticipation, this book the other day and I’m 150 or so pages in.

One thing I will mention at this point is that this book was well worth the wait. If, like me, you’re a writer then fasten your seat belts kids. Narrative and dialogue and particularly description will have a whole new meaning for you as a writer. Readers are in for a thrill ride in terms of translated action and vivid imagery.
Jack Reacher is on the hunt for a killer who has an appetite for beautiful young women.
Child’s, at one point early on describes his character Reacher,or rather Reacher is doing the talking, in 1st POV, standing by a railroad track (in the course of the investigation), close, just feet away from the tracks, as a train approaches and then blasts past him and it’s a multi-sensory masterpiece of a scene. In another spot (they’re all through this book) where the mother of a murdered girl, in the doorway of her little shack, acts and reacts to news of any progress in her daughter’s murder case and this too is a passage that you will never forget.
Maybe I just woke up on another level just before I began this book or maybe this book transported me to the lofty world of a bestselling author’s perspectives and understanding but I am seriously impressed with Lee’s work here and yes, it deepens the story to such a level that even as a well read writer I feel it’s affecting my own writing just having been exposed to this exhibition of skill.
I hope this book gets the attention it deserves and everyone reads it, I really do.
More soon, I’m devoting all day today to reading.

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