Private Games
Ratings12
Average rating3.5
One of the things I don't like about the Private books so far is Jack Morgan. Thankfully, he's not the central character at all in Private Games. Peter Knight is much more fun to be around.
The book is a page turner all right. The action is basically non stop! However, Cronus's motives behind this elaborate and out of this world scheme was completely laughable. When he revealed his reasons I literally did that, laugh. It was awful.
But this book got me excited about the last two I have to read. If Jack Morgan isn't going to rain on my parade I'm pretty sure I'll enjoy these as well!
I listened to this book during two consecutive road trips. It was read by an English chap which, at times, was hard to understand and listen to, but also made sense since the story takes place in London during the 2012 Olympic Games.
It was a little eery to listen to the book and then go in and watch some of the games - and keeping the two separate in my mind. But I think having it take place during the current games made it more interesting to me. It was a decent story but more in the style of a comic book and not the suspense novel I was expecting from a highly acclaimed novelist.