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The 500
by Matthew Quirk
Read Completed 5/26/23 | 2.5 stars
I picked this one up after watching The Night Agent on Netflix and really enjoying it! I found it was based on a book and usually when I watch the show first, it's anticlimactic to read the book second, so I wanted to see what else this author might have written. THE 500 sounded incredibly promising so I was excited to read it and it really let me down.
The beginning of this book was SO BORING. It just felt like the main character was just talking at me with nothing happening. Usually it feels like just someone narrating but this just felt like endless talking about nothing, going in circles, and nothing moving forward. If I hadn't made it far enough and I hadn't DNFed other books before this one, I would have quit reading, but I decided to push through.
Thankfully, the second half got much more interesting. There still wasn't enough character development to really get me hooked, but the plot FINALLY started moving and we got some really nice twists here and there.
I can't really say I'd recommend this, but if you do read it, the second half is much better than the first. If we had gotten the charisma, pacing, and intrigue of the last 50% of the book the whole time, this would have been a much better read for me. Before we got there, I was literally going to rate this 1.5 stars, so thankfully it picked up. I still can't really give it 3 though since it was a long ride to get there and I can't forget how boring the first part was.
I picked this one up after watching The Night Agent on Netflix and really enjoying it! I found it was based on a book and usually when I watch the show first, it's anticlimactic to read the book second, so I wanted to see what else this author might have written. THE 500 sounded incredibly promising so I was excited to read it and it really let me down.
The beginning of this book was SO BORING. It just felt like the main character was just talking at me with nothing happening. Usually it feels like just someone narrating but this just felt like endless talking about nothing, going in circles, and nothing moving forward. If I hadn't made it far enough and I hadn't DNFed other books before this one, I would have quit reading, but I decided to push through.
Thankfully, the second half got much more interesting. There still wasn't enough character development to really get me hooked, but the plot FINALLY started moving and we got some really nice twists here and there.
I can't really say I'd recommend this, but if you do read it, the second half is much better than the first. If we had gotten the charisma, pacing, and intrigue of the last 50% of the book the whole time, this would have been a much better read for me. Before we got there, I was literally going to rate this 1.5 stars, so thankfully it picked up. I still can't really give it 3 though since it was a long ride to get there and I can't forget how boring the first part was.