J. B. Turner (1)

I enjoyed this book better than the first. The main character, Nathan Stone, is an assassin. In the first book, he's really got no redeeming values. He's paid to kill and he does so without thought. In Reckoning, he helps protect someone he'd previously been assigned to kill. I look forward to reading the next book in the series to see what happens next.

Again, not bad but pretty much more of the same from the previous two books. My main beef with the first two was that our protagonist, Nathan Stone, is a hired killer who doesn't care who he kills. Even an anti-hero needs some redeeming qualities. Those begin to come out in "Requiem" which helps.

Here, Stone, still being hunted by those who initially hired him to do a job, is invited to a party by a beautiful woman. Little does she know it's a trap to kill Stone but of course he sniffs it out show more and drags her along as they escape. The woman, Beatrice, is an actress and woefully unprepared for the slog through the Everglades as they evade the killers. This goes on too long. And while Beatrice is not fit for this, she sure does complain and moan and asked stupid questions CONSTANTLY. I empathize with her predicament, but she came off as way too whiney.

I doubt I'll continue this series as it was just OK. show less

Rogue was OK. Here, we meet Nathan Stone, a former military operative who was "killed" but brought back to life and is now used as a high-end hitman. The problem I have with Stone, and all the other characters, is that he's in no way likable. He and his sister had been beaten mercilessly by his drunken father until his sister killed him. So there's some empathy there. But Stone doesn't care who he kills.

He's assigned by The Committee, a rogue, private group of military and business leaders show more who look to kill those who want to slow down the military industrial complex, to kill a libertarian US senator. We find out pretty early on what's in store for Stone, though, so what follows isn't all that surprising.

I have started the 2nd book but so far it's pretty predicable. I hope Stone starts making conscious-based decisions but I'm not too encouraged so far. If he doesn't, I'll stop reading the series. show less

Another good story, but it's odd that we still know so little about the main character. We learn far more about the antagonists via intelligence gathered during the investigation but almost nothing about Reznick.