A review by phillipsmithy
Die Trying by Lee Child

3.0

Not a bad book, but I didn’t enjoy it as much as the first Reacher novel. It was a little slow in parts but ramped up towards the end. I found Child’s overly descriptive segments, whilst they were a good description of what was happening, overly long and pointless and the book could easily have done without them (such as the bullet firing sequences). Also I think the romance could’ve been handled a bit better, it was a bit odd in places such as the sex scene next to the grave of the body that Reacher had spent all day digging. I also found the constant need to switch between Reacher’s perspective one chapter and then that of the FBI the next a little annoying, as whilst the FBI segments added to the story they definitely weren’t as interesting as the Reacher chapters and I thought that there was too many of them. I still enjoyed the book however and it certainly won’t be the last Reacher novel that I read.