February 11th, 2014 – Book – ‘The Brothers O’Brien’ by William W. Johnstone
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Feb.11, 2014, under Books
The Brothers O’Brien by William W. Johnstone
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
This is one Hell of a good book. Not much for using “Page turner”, but page turning I was. Don’t know who in the Johnstone Clan wrote this, but this is the best I’ve read of the twelve or so read so far. The ghost writer really got the idea of early Johnstone books of defining characters and fleshing out story. Seems this might be a writer that had not written any of the other books I’ve read so far. Very good work.
One of the best things of this book is that the plot that develops in the second half of the book is very different from the other Johnstone books. There are some characters that are very different and even a bit of a sorcery angle spilled in. There is a cat in this book that is really well placed. Was never sure just how this book would end, except that this is still another series and that the brothers would survive. That’s something else in this book, as was the case with earlier Johnstone novels, mot everyone survives. There are some who meet their fate in ways very unexpected. Really like the levels as they get built throughout the book.
After a series of mediocre to bad Johnstone books, this charges me on to the dozens of others I’ve collected over the past year.
Bottom line: I recommend this book!
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