Book Review - The DMZ
Today I have a review for you. I am pretty behind on some reviews, so be prepared to see quiet a few of them over the next few days. :-) I might be a bit absent this weekend as my family is planning on helping out the tornado victims in Alabama, but I will try to pre-plan my posts and check back for comments as often as I can. Lord willing, you won't see any lagging on my part. And now, onto the review for The DMZ
, which is a wonderful political suspense thriller--awesome read, if a bit long-winded in the beginning.My Review:
Star Rating: 5
One look at this book and some might pass it on. With 512 pages, it does seem like a rather daunting read. When I picked this up and began it, I confess that I wasn't grabbed from the very first pages, but I persevered through it. By the time I was past the first hundred pages, I completely forgot about how big and thick it was--I was hooked! Jeanette has woven together an awesome suspense book that I would love to see turned into a movie one day.It took a little while for the main character to come onto the scene--I believe it was on page 71 that you were first introduced to Julie Baker. There was quite a bit of background and different scenes and aspects that needed to be shown before then. But once Julie walked into the plot, things got going and never stopped after that. Julie was a very three-dimensional character that I quickly came to like and loved as the heroine for this book. The other characters were just as impressive and believable--Tim, Enrique, Aguilera, Carlos, Rafael, Rick....everyone! The slight love story at the end with Julie was very sweet and added to the plot, making me fall in love with Julie and her man even more (who, by the way, I thought was totally awesome and made the perfect hero). I won't say anything else, as I don't want to give anything away--there are so many surprises in this book!
The plot for this amazing suspense thriller was amazing. The mystery surrounding who the spies were was great, too. I guessed almost from the beginning of Julie's captivity at who the two spies were, and I was so pleased with myself when I discovered that my guesses were right. lol! The whole book was very complex and completely believable. I can understand why government agencies questioned the author to see if she'd received classified information (as she mentions on the back cover). It's so in-depth and realistic it's completely believable! As I continued to climb the very high tension-level to the climax of The DMZ
, I was seriously gripping the pages and cheering Julie on. If there was anything I did not like in this book, it was the very minute detail that Jeanette often gave to the plot--especially for the first hundred pages or so. And from the other glowing reviews of this book, I might be the only one who grew a little restless to skip the very extensive details and explanation and get to the action. I am very much an action/adventure reader and found myself skimming sometimes in the beginning, eager to get to when Julie is kidnapped. (I love a good kidnapping story--and being kidnapped by guerrillas who think she is a spy sounded awesome to me. I wasn't disappointed.)
So, all that said, I give The DMZ
5 stars for an awesome suspense story, though I readily confess when--and I do say "when" as I have no doubt I will want to relive this story--I pick it up to reread I would no doubt skip over the first hundred pages. But that's just me. If you want a suspense thriller that has great detail and will take you away and into the thick jungles fighting for survival right alongside the characters, then I highly recommend this book! I reviewed this book for LitFuse and Kregel Publications. Thanks to Christy Anderson for sending me a review copy. It was not required that I give a positive review, but solely to express my own thoughts and opinions of this book, which I have done.?
~ Katy
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Source: http://katieslegacy.blogspot.com/2011/05/book-review-dmz.html
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