Review of Kurt Schlichter's Latest Novel Crisis
With nothing to read over the holiday's I took Jackalopes suggestion and uploaded
Crisis from Amazon to keep me occupied in-between projects.
Bottom-line first, I enjoyed the read and highly recommend it to folks and especially first-time readers of Schlichter's lethal hero, Kelly Turnbull. To be frank, I would rate this book the top one of the five-book series.
Earlier books in my opinion although fun to read where a bit over the top in believability. Perfect for a long airplane flight to the and from the Las Vegas Shot Show but not one I would run out and buy the day one was released from the publisher.
Although this book has its questionable moments, I could allow my eyes to go out of focus and take the plot in stride of the story. I would love 15-minutes to ask Schlichter a few questions of why he did not have Turnbull do 'X' or why he had him do 'Y'. I will let you, the reader of this post figure out those spots; however, since I have never written a novel, I will leave those moments up to the author's prerogative.
Schlichter has a follow-up novel to
Crisis coming out later this year titled
The Split. Because of
Crisis, I will break my pattern and buy it the first day it is available to the public.
Knowing their thoughts, he said to them, “Every kingdom divided against itself is laid waste, and no city or house divided against itself will stand - Matthew 12:25