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Total Control by David Baldacci

adenise47's review against another edition

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5.0

This was such a good book! This is the second I have read by this author. I plan on reading all of his books! They are lengthy books, but they hold your attention and have you on the edge of your seat! I would definitely recommend this book!

heathere6093's review against another edition

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The first Baldacci book I've ever not finished. Seemed too wordy, too long to get anywhere

karaklos's review against another edition

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2.0

Total Control is one book with too many stories. While it’s not difficult to follow, it seems completely preposterous that all of these stories would even occur to begin with...much less be linked.

The main character is Sidney Archer. She’s beautiful, intelligent, a successful attorney and mother. Her husband makes some poor choices with bad people and she ends up in big trouble. Despite her great intelligence, she repeatedly makes very poor decisions landing herself in more and more trouble. Don’t worry though! She can handle a gun, outwit the bad guys just in time, fight off the bad guys too (again just in time!), and the bad guys will also let her go free sometimes. There’s also a plane crash, several murders, and a lot of bad dudes. Note: if you suspect someone is a bad dude, he is.

I had a hard time keeping up with the characters. I had to go back a couple times to remind myself who someone was. Also, the book went on far too long and was poorly edited.

As an aside, reading this book so many years after its original publication made the story much less intense. The references to floppy disks and America Online were funny to see.

chet_mkm's review against another edition

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2.0

Not good. Massive plot holes, really drawn out.

ltramz's review against another edition

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3.0

It was fun reading a book written 20 years ago and seeing how much has changed since then.

kdekens's review against another edition

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adventurous medium-paced

4.0

biodesert's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional informative mysterious tense medium-paced

3.0

frankb12's review against another edition

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5.0

Quite entertaining book. Very hard to put down once you start reading.

katiecatbooks's review against another edition

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3.0

90's tech thriller. Strong female lead. Action packed.

Themes: plane crash investigation, armed and dangerous intelligent female

Story: Jason Archer lives in a nice house in suburban Washington DC with his lovely wife and their young daughter. When Jason disappears and trouble starts turning up left and right, it's up to wife Sidney to take charge in order to track down answers.

Language: Published in the 90's, this book contains a plethora of outdated technology and terminology, making it less suspenseful as it might have been back in the day. It's overly long at 600+ pages and the amount of characters and twists and turns make the reveal at the end more of a puzzle to try to remember previous characters and chapters than an ideal A-ha moment.

Characters: Jason is a hard working computer savvy guy, trying to pay off debts and idealized by his wife. Sidney is beautiful and a lawyer and... well, they are all rather one dimensional.

Shoddy writing and a lackluster ending didn't win me over.

magolden13's review against another edition

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dark mysterious

4.0