Chapter by Chapter features me reading one chapter of the selected book at the time and reviewing it as if I were reviewing an episode of a TV show or an issue of a comic. There will be spoilers if you haven’t read to the point I have, and if you’ve read further I ask that you don’t spoil anything further into the book. Think of it as read-along book club.
Here we go again. Three chapters this week, and I wish that meant we were speeding things along but given how short the chapters are we’re not quite 2/3rds into this book. There are eighty-eight chapters and a lot of is padding, I think to introduce the series and main/recurring characters more than the needs of the story. All of the interesting stuff is happening in Korea, and all the annoying stuff involve our main characters. Most of them are unlikable, seeking the boss’s job, seeking the boss’s body, running off when they should be here (what happened to Mike Rodgers and the team he forced a soldier off of so he could be there anyway?), or just being rude if they aren’t making matters worse.
Meanwhile, our Korean-based heroes are trying to prove the bombing was a ruse to restart the Korean War and being interesting. A man is dealing with the grief of losing his wife hours ago and is still doing more good than the guys who haven’t lost anything, save the man whose son is in the hospital. In other words the only way to be good at anything is to have a loved one dead or dying in this book. Let’s get to the chapter list for this week.
- Chapter 50: Wednesday, 1:20 AM, Yanguu Village: 5 pages
- Chapter 51: Wednesday, 11:30 AM, Op-Center: 5 pages
- Chapter 52: Wednesday, 1:45 AM, The DMZ: 5 pages
Well, thus far I can’t fault it. One scene with Hwan trying to find the real bombers, a stop at Op-Center, and a check-in with Donald trying to stop a war. All three major areas accounted for. Will it be any good though?
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