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scrapanda's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
medium-paced
3.75
emmarj's review against another edition
2.0
I received a copy of Constant Fear by Daniel Palmer in exchange for my honest review.
Jake Dent is a dooms day prepper in the closet. His son, Andy, is a hacker Robin Hood. What happens when Andy steals from the wrong people?
An interesting premise with an execution that did not do it justice.
First, the entire attitude that being a prepper is some awful, dirty secret that Jake has to hide didn't really jive with me. I'm a hippie and I have hippie friends - perhaps that's why I don't find the notion of being a prepper that odd.
Next, the plot device of the wayward ex wife seemed stilted and too convenient.
Constant Fear had several too-long passages of drawn out descriptions of Jake's gun collection or his myriad survival gear. A personal preference, but I just don't care. I'm sure if I was a gun or survival fanatic these pages would have been candy.
There was a part of the book where one of the main characters is going to check out a lead during a hostage situation. She believes she has approximately 40 minutes to solve the mystery of who is holding kids hostage and why before all of them are killed. So she stops at her house to pick up a dog and we're treated to a long description of an irrelevant trick the dog performs. A trick that was previously described toward the beginning of the novel. Uggghhh. This ends up being a convenient out for this character later but it was just so awkward and out of place that it distracted me from what was supposed to be a suspenseful few chapters.
Overall, Constant Fear gets two stars because the first half of the book lacked the cheesiness of the second half but this probably isn't something I'd recommend to anyone I know.
Jake Dent is a dooms day prepper in the closet. His son, Andy, is a hacker Robin Hood. What happens when Andy steals from the wrong people?
An interesting premise with an execution that did not do it justice.
First, the entire attitude that being a prepper is some awful, dirty secret that Jake has to hide didn't really jive with me. I'm a hippie and I have hippie friends - perhaps that's why I don't find the notion of being a prepper that odd.
Next, the plot device of the wayward ex wife seemed stilted and too convenient.
Constant Fear had several too-long passages of drawn out descriptions of Jake's gun collection or his myriad survival gear. A personal preference, but I just don't care. I'm sure if I was a gun or survival fanatic these pages would have been candy.
There was a part of the book where one of the main characters is going to check out a lead during a hostage situation. She believes she has approximately 40 minutes to solve the mystery of who is holding kids hostage and why before all of them are killed. So she stops at her house to pick up a dog and we're treated to a long description of an irrelevant trick the dog performs. A trick that was previously described toward the beginning of the novel. Uggghhh. This ends up being a convenient out for this character later but it was just so awkward and out of place that it distracted me from what was supposed to be a suspenseful few chapters.
Overall, Constant Fear gets two stars because the first half of the book lacked the cheesiness of the second half but this probably isn't something I'd recommend to anyone I know.
a_wondrous_bookshelf's review against another edition
3.0
Jake Dent lives with his diabetic teenage son Andy in the town of Winston, MA. Andy is a computer geek and part of the Shire--a group of hacker kids who steal money from rich people's bank accounts to give to charity. It's all nice and fun until the kids hack a drug cartel's bank account and steal millions of dollars. When the drug dealers stage a chemical spill at the school and take the children hostage; Jake an ex-baseball player turned Rambo, goes on a race against time to save his son and the rest of the kids.
I really enjoyed Daniel Palmer's new thriller Constant Fear. I wouldn't call it a page-turner, but it certainly kept me interested. The story is really well-written and the book has a great premise. The characters were well developed, but I found some of the chapters with descriptions of the guns and ammo to be a little too long and boring. Overall, I definitely recommend this thriller.
I'd like to thank NetGalley for providing me with a free copy of this book in exchange for my honest review. This book is scheduled to be published on May 26, 2015.
I really enjoyed Daniel Palmer's new thriller Constant Fear. I wouldn't call it a page-turner, but it certainly kept me interested. The story is really well-written and the book has a great premise. The characters were well developed, but I found some of the chapters with descriptions of the guns and ammo to be a little too long and boring. Overall, I definitely recommend this thriller.
I'd like to thank NetGalley for providing me with a free copy of this book in exchange for my honest review. This book is scheduled to be published on May 26, 2015.
biblioventurer's review against another edition
3.0
It was a good book with relatable characters. That being said, it was a bit violent for me (one passage made me nauseous) and I don't typically enjoy books with drug cartels and such detailed and technical descriptions of weaponry. I liked it but probably would not read another by this author.
nickieandremus's review
5.0
The beginning of the book was slow, possibly because the two topics were bitcoins and survivalist lifestyle, neither of which holds an interest for me. Once I got past the initial few chapters though, the book picked up speed and became hard to put down. Very suspenseful.
blueberry's review
dark
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Loveable characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
2.75
Content Warnings
Graphic: Torture, Violence, Murder, Gun violence, Gore, and Confinement
franktt89's review against another edition
3.0
Pretty quick read. Nice break from a dense novel. Kept my attention pretty well.
vkemp's review
3.0
Jake Dent was supposed to play professional baseball, except he got drunk one night, crashed his car and shattered his elbow. Now, he's the head janitor at a tony prep school so his diabetic son, Andy, can have free tuition. His wife left him when the baseball dream came crashing down. Jake has become a doomsday prepper because he knows how fragile life can be. When Andy and his computer geek friends steal bitcoins from the wrong people, Jake's dooms day prepping will come in quite handy. A fun ride, if rather predictable, on the whole.
caidyn's review
2.0
I got approved for the first chapter of this. This is an honest review of that first chapter. It was an interesting premise and beginning to the whole thing, but it wasn't something that really caught me and made me want to actually read more of the book.