I borrowed this book from one of my colleagues at work, Rachel, with whom I share a love for books by Christopher Paolini. I started The Fork, the Witch, and the Worm on January 4 and finished it on January 16, 2019.
I loved this book!
I love the Eragon series!
This book is not that, but includes some of the same characters in short stories. What this is not - a continuation of the Eragon books as you know them. It doesn't wrap anything up, tell us in linear terms what happens next, or offer any sort of closure of the things unresolved from the Eragon books.
What this is - a collection of short stories, unrelated, that include some of the characters we already know and some new ones we are just meeting.
I thought the stories were quite entertaining. The characters are well developed. The stories are entertaining. You'll read stories about Murtaugh, Angela, and the Urgals, and have bits of Eragon in each.
If you are expecting another Eragon-like book - this is not that. If you like the way and style Paolini writes and his characters, you'll probably like this. Don't go into this with too many expectations - keep an open mind, and I bet you'll like it.
So, after finishing Gang Leader for a Day, I started another book, but then the husband brought home the newest Vince Flynn book from the library. I put the other book on pause and devoured this one. I started it on December 29 and finished it on January 4.
First - I loved this book
Second - Mitch Rapp books follow a recipe / they are formulaic
Third - I don't care
As I was thinking about what to write about this book, the first thing that came to mind was "the sky is falling." This book finds the formerly evil turned good(ish) guy Grisha at home in Costa Rica with danger afoot. Of course Mitch and his boys are there to save the day.
As they try to figure out why danger came after Grisha, we get glimpses into things going amok for the Russian president. We all know that these things will turn out to be related, and they are, of course. Over the course of the book, we find out just how bad the sky could fall. I can't give too much away here (I hate spoilers) but yet again the shit hits the fan and Mitch and team + Grisha are there to not let it hit the fan and splatter too much of a shitstorm.
There is always a political element to the Mitch Rapp books that seems frighteningly founded in reality. I think to myself, the author definitely researches things for the book, how real are some of the scenarios that are written about? Maybe I don't want to know.
This book was extremely entertaining, fast paced, somewhat predictable (from the formula/recipe standpoint), but I don't care. I loved it.
