![]() ![]() ![]() The few times the author attempts to connect us with his protagonist are over the most obvious universal sentiments - by that I mean he is sad for the people who were tortured and starved during the Holocaust, and angry because of 9/11. This book has over six hundred pages surely he will develop a personality in time. The bestest, baddest super spy of them all - the so-called "Pilgrim" - seems a little generic and lacking in characterization beyond the repeated affirmations by everyone that he really is THE BEST at everything, but that's okay. murder, sex, perfect crimes - who wouldn't be interested at this point? The scene is so lacking in evidence that it looks like we got a badass on our hands.Ĭome on. It opens with a grisly murder, seemingly sexual in nature, with the victim dissolving in acid in the bathtub. The novel is broken up into "parts", each dealing with a different part of Pilgrim's life - as an Intelligence agent, an assassin, a criminal investigator, etc. ![]() I picked up I Am Pilgrim after seeing it on Goodreads' 16 Underrated Books That Deserve Your Attention post, and thinking that it was about time I found myself a fast-paced thriller.Īnd it starts fairly well, I'll give it that. I am giving up around the halfway point - which is arguably very generous for a 600-page book - because I'm just getting more and more irritated. ![]()
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