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The Brunch Book Challenge: a quick book review
The Brunch Book Challenge is an @HTBrunch initiative to get readers to read at least 24 books in 2014. Read anything you like, just keep us posted. Tweet your progress to @HTBrunch with the hashtag #BrunchBookChallenge. This week: a quick book review of Be Careful What You Wish For by Jeffrey Archer.
The Brunch Book Challenge is an @HTBrunch initiative to get readers to read at least 24 books in 2014. Read anything you like, just keep us posted. Tweet your progress to @HTBrunch with the hashtag #BrunchBookChallenge
Because you'll pick it up anyway
The Book: Be Careful What You Wish For by Jeffrey Archer
The Gist: One of England's more prominent families is under siege from a shadowy Argentine adversary on a revenge spree. A bunch of murders, near misses and abductions later, the saviour arrives in the unlikely form of a middle-aged banker. But will the villain land one last crippling blow?
One-line Review: The fourth in the series, the book chugs along for 400-odd pages at a leisurely pace, never quite managing to thrill, picking up only at the end.
Read if you like: Boardroom manoeuvres and family intrigues. Essentially, if you like The Bold and the Beautiful.
Caution: Characters seem out of a TV show and sometimes move from death of a sister to marriage within two chapters
Best Line: Sir Alan agreed with Churchill that as a form of government, democracy was the best on offer. But if given a free hand, he would have opted for a benevolent dictatorship. The problem was that dictators, by their very nature, weren't benevolent.
From HT Brunch, June 1
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