Jacob Tender

DNF.

This book is tedious and insufferable. Smells of zero editing input. Unlikable and unrealistic characters. Who talks this way? Nobody in cyber-security that I've ever met. Especially not ones in their late 60s. A genuinely, laughably bad book.

With the first book, I read it in Bob’s voice and that elevated the experience. For the second, I listened to it in his voice. At first I preferred my imagination, but I came around to enjoying Bob and Sally’s vocal contributions to this fairly straightforward sequel. Paul Whitehouse didn’t quite hit the mark in his delivery. Not by my estimation, at least.

I don’t know that more of Gary Thorn is necessary. His character progression was wanting. Looking forward to Bob’s next story all the same.

I haven't read a lot of King's work, but I have read Dead Zone a number of times over the years. I don't know what about it sticks with me, but I like it a lot.

Because I've been in school, I don't have a lot of downtime for pleasure reads. What I do have is 10 hours of weekly commute. So I went for the audiobook. Unfortunately, the narrator is James Franco who sounds exactly like James Franco for the duration of the book.