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jimmacsyr's review
5.0
Unbelievably prescient! The world event situation in this book is incredibly relevant to today. "Read" via audio book, and the actor was excellent
jasmyn9's review
3.0
Special advisor to the President, Jack McClure, finds himself in Moscow with the president and his family working on an important treaty when word comes that a senator has died in Capri. Strange thing is, this senator was supposed to be in the Ukraine. Sensing something is wrong, the president sends Jack McClure off to investigate. Before he can leave, a strange run in with a Russian woman named Annika stirs the pot and gives him a partner. Throw in the first daughter, Alli, deciding to tag along as well, and you have quite a mixed up group.
Jack just didn't seem to do much for me. Perhaps it was the magical way his dyslexia gave him special thinking powers (not sure if that's possible or not, but it seemed an easy way out). Or perhaps how he always just seemed to get lucky. He really didn't seem to be making any headway on his own. It was all the work of Annika and Alli until the final mystery which he pulls a solution out of thin air.
Annika is hard to describe. I didnt seem to get to know her very well at all. And what I did get to know about her always seemed to be changing.
Alli was by far my favorite character. SHe was stronger than she thought she was. After being through a traumtic kidnapping (the first book) she has a lot of emotional baggage that she is working through throughout the entire story. I couldn't help but admire her tenacity as she tried to find herself again.
The story itself was decent, but there was so much going on behind the scenes that without many strokes of luck our characters would have been dead several times over. I'm still trying to figure out how the ending really was the best solution to anything. I'm all for the surprise twist to keep the reader guessing, but there were a few too many this time.
3/5
Jack just didn't seem to do much for me. Perhaps it was the magical way his dyslexia gave him special thinking powers (not sure if that's possible or not, but it seemed an easy way out). Or perhaps how he always just seemed to get lucky. He really didn't seem to be making any headway on his own. It was all the work of Annika and Alli until the final mystery which he pulls a solution out of thin air.
Annika is hard to describe. I didnt seem to get to know her very well at all. And what I did get to know about her always seemed to be changing.
Alli was by far my favorite character. SHe was stronger than she thought she was. After being through a traumtic kidnapping (the first book) she has a lot of emotional baggage that she is working through throughout the entire story. I couldn't help but admire her tenacity as she tried to find herself again.
The story itself was decent, but there was so much going on behind the scenes that without many strokes of luck our characters would have been dead several times over. I'm still trying to figure out how the ending really was the best solution to anything. I'm all for the surprise twist to keep the reader guessing, but there were a few too many this time.
3/5
heathermollauthor's review
1.0
i found this book to be a major disappointment. Our hero is unique because he is dyslexic and this gives him an extraordinary ability to solve puzzles. That still doesn't leave the author off the hook for explaining the plot to the rest of us. The first third of the book is entertaining as we follow Jack, Annika the rougue Russian agent, and Alli the mentally damaged first daughter across the Ukraine, but things fall downhill fast. Annika is clearly an enemy from the moment she walks into the bar, there's no way you could believe Secret Service would let Alli gallavant across Ukraine with Jack and the characters are all 2-dimensional and uneblievable. Between Russian oligarchs, Annika's father, the Alizarin group, Ukraine oil interests, Russian-American politics, the impact of pyschological abuse, Jack talking to his dead daughter, General Brandt going off the reservation for who knows what, Paull and his family etc there were just too many separate aspects to this story that didn't come together in a meaningful way.
jaxboiler's review
2.0
I did not really like this book. I had a hard time following the story with the way it bounced around and so many plot twists and turn.
jmcguoirk's review against another edition
3.0
Better than the first. Unlike, other writers of this genre... this book needs to be read in series. The flashbacks to "First Daughter" were only complete having read the book just days ago.
bookdancing's review
4.0
4.5 stars actually...
http://www.thebookbag.co.uk/reviews/index.php?title=Last_Snow_(Jack_McClure_Trilogy)_by_Eric_Van_Lustbader
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shane's review
Am not going to struggle on with this one. It's not a patch on his old Nicholas Linear novels and as a story in and of itself, it really does leave a lot to be desired. I got about half way through and found I was simply continuing in the hope that I could struggle through to the end. This is the point that a book should be abandoned.
Not good. I miss the days of Nicholas in Japan.
Not good. I miss the days of Nicholas in Japan.
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