A Darker Place

I absolutely love the character of Sean Dillon. It’s been fun to watch his character grow and change since he was first introduced. But here, his role is barely that of a cameo. In fact, when the trouble comes up on the train, Sean SLEEPS through it?!?!?!?

And I’m going to have to find a hard copy and see if it ends in the same place as the Kindle version. I know the review with the book description said that the3 final dustup was rushed… but the last page in the Kindle version doesn’t even feel like and ending. I thought maybe the next book was intended to pick up the story, but after reading the description of the new one coming out in July, that doesn’t seem to be the case.

BRING BACK SEAN!!!

A Darker Place is a good, quick read. Higgins creates an interesting story (even though it is lacking at the end) and some really interesting characters. Yet, A Darker Place still doesn’t live up to some of Higgins’ past works–namely the historical fiction relating to WWII. In my opinion, his writing (his books) has always been good at telling the story (building the background and developing the characters). However, his endings lately remind me of an eighth grader telling a story. Then this happened and that happened and this occurred. Too quickly summed up without the detail I enjoy in the rest of the story.

A Darker Place is one of the better yarns we’ve seen from Jack lately. The introduction of what could be a few new regular characters gives the author a broader canvas to keep things fresh. A Darker place, was typical Higgins and if you love him (and I do)you will enjoy the story.
It would be nice to see more retrospective stories (i.e. The Eagle Has Flown) I miss Liam Devlin, but more importantly those story lines had suspense and intricacy. Maybe todays events are just more direct and less nuanced. A good read regardless, afterall it’s Jack!

My first of the series. Not overly impressed with the character development. Got 16-20 to try. Hopefully the next one is better. Simplistic plot with little suspense. Well on to the next one. Hope it is better. Maybe I should have started with #1. Where was Dillon?

It is one of the most boring books I have ever read. (and I have read many). There was too much
talk and no action. A lot of unnecessary talk and talk and talk among the characters. It is as if the
author was trying to produce pages out of nothing, since there was very Little real action.

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