Finally bit the bullet and got the Patreon so I could read the newest book. I’m jonesing for my fix, but I wasn’t sure when he normally posts new chapters.
I searched this sub to find the best audiobooks available to spend my surplus of credits on. I spent most of them on safe bets that I have not been let down by. However, I was surprised to find The Gray Man suggested fairly regularly. I took a chance and bought the first of the series.
I’m not going to give a long winded review, but I’ll say my piece as quickly as I can. The voice of the narrator makes me feel like he’s performing a melodrama. He gets better as the book goes on, but the first few chapters were awful to listen to. He goes from soap opera to serviceable, but never really gets “good.” The book itself is insane (in a good and bad way). The main character is supposed the be the greatest assassin in the world, because he’s oh so smart and talented. The author at least shows him to be talented, but he’s basically an idiot. Time and time again he does some crazy dumb shit that can’t just be explained by exhaustion. But man, the fight scenes are fun as all get out.
I was a fan of Bourne back in the day, but it got too cerebral without the weight it was going for. Jack Reacher was just plain awful, and I gave up on it immediately. I figured this series would be somewhere in the middle. I’m not really sure that it is.
Does the series get better, or should I cut my losses and stop after the first book?
Looking at getting a gaming laptop and don’t want to spend over $1000. Just found this one and its price dropped locally at my Walmart from $999 to $899.
i7-14650HX
RTX 5050
16GB DDR5
It looks good to me considering some of the other options I’ve seen online in my price range. Would love a second opinion, though.
Budget: $1000
Country: USA
I firmly believe in “show don’t tell,” so I was mostly on board with author, Alex Knowles, not holding the reader’s hand. However, there are parts of this book that are infuriating to piece together. It’s alluded to that the character Trayk did something awful to the character Ezra. There are hints dropped that she sold herself to him, or that he SAed her, or something. As far as I can tell, this is not resolved or explained, even though it’s played up as a major plot point that Ezra will “explain when she’s ready.” Can someone else tell me if they have a better understanding?
It’s hard to trust the context clues from the author, because he also has the MC talk about how he’s never been touched and how he’s never let anyone get close, then all of a sudden he has this tragic story about his ex girlfriend who betrayed him.