The Evolution of Fear

Booktrailer Review

Susan: @thebooktrailer

I don’t know about you but as I read this, I felt the sweat on my brow as I raced through it, my reading pace in keeping with the running pace of Clay. This really is non – stop and gritty, reeling you in and spitting you out much like happens to the protagonist himself.

You don’t have to have read The Abrupt Physics of Dying in order to gain the true satisfaction from this read as this novel is more than capable of speaking for itself. There’s just so much too it that although jam packed, it never feels rushed or busy for busy’s sake.

As a booktrailer, I really was thrilled to be taken on a trail that led to a final destination of consequences and danger. I’m not aware of the issues and problems mentioned in the book and so didn’t know what was going to happen but never fear, the novel takes you by the hand and sucks you in so you don’t have time to think, just read.

The journey from Cornwall’s rain and isolation to the dusty heat and chaos of Istanbul and then on to Cyprus was just brilliant but it was the bits in between, the arduous and dangerous journey by sea to these places where you might have expected a lull but these parts were crafted to create just that much energy and suspense to have you ricochet off to the next chapter of both the events and the book itself.

The entire plot was griping from beginning to end. It’s fierce, violent and in your face but you can tell it’s written by someone who knows, who’s been there and who has felt every bead of sweat on his top lip as Clay does.

A meaty thriller says Lee Child and he should know. We say like the best steak there is, this is worth savouring. Chewing over until that moment when, meat sweats or not, you can sit back and relax, enjoying the feeling of having devoured a book that satisfies on every level.