Scarecrow

How Matthew Reilly comes up with amazing cliff-hangers chapter after chapter is amazing. Over the top? Yes. Unrealistic? Yes. Fun as hell to read? Absolutely yes.

In Scarecrow, billionaires have summoned the world's best bounty hunters to take out a number of the world's elite soldiers so they can create another Cold War. Needless to say, Shane "Scarecrow" Schofield is on that list. The action doesn't stop in this world wind of a thriller.

3.5 stars It took me a little while to get into this one. The beginning of the book just seemed like a cluster×××× of too many groups of people shooting at each other and everything. Once the plot evolved a little more then I started liking it more. Not my favorite but still a nice mindless action 'flick'/I mean 'read.' lol

I wanted to give this a 3.5. There were a few spots where I went "oh come on, you've got to be kidding," and got dropped out of the story.

However, there were a few scenes that I really liked and kept Schofield from being too Superman-y and over the top.

I was disappointed a bit because I'd heard how good this book was in particular. Next time I need a fast-paced read and to suspend believability a little, I might grab one of the other books in the series.

An excellent thriller. Like all of Reilly's books he uses an extraordinary cinematic (some might say unbelievable) style which is the closest you will get to a Hollywood blockbuster on the page. Some shocking plot twists as well - the mark of an author who is not prepared to take any hostages.

Even though I have read this book I was hoping for a different ending for some of the main characters. But no! Matthew still is as heartless in the audio version as he was in the print version. Oh, well!

At least he did not slow down the action and fast pace of the audio version. The, almost, absurdity of the plot, which makes this book as great as it is, will keep me wanting to listen to, or read, it again in my advancing years.

I am sure more boys, and maybe girls, would be interested in English if education departments would only realise that the days of ‘...friends Romans and countrymen...’ are long gone.

Not much to say. A typical Shane Schofield story. Unrealistic action moving at warp speed. I will admit to being utterly caught off guard by Reilly's choice to kill off one of the people we've spent all the previous books getting to know. I know he likes to keep his readers on edge, never knowing who might survive and who might die, but I really hated to see this character go. Probably because I'm a romantic at heart. Still, I'll read the next Schofield novel when it comes out. As utterly unrealistic as they are, I love the action. It is pure fluff and an excuse to immerse myself in a world where the laws of physics and reality don't apply for a while.

Not sure what to say! I'm totally shocked and horrified that Reilly killed off such a wonderful character. How could he???? Doesn't he know that only the villains are supposed to come to grisly ends? This book is much more violent and gruesome than the other two 'Scarecrow' books but still a thrilling adventure. After reading this series, I need to now read something slow and sedate to get my blood pressure back to normal!