books read by matte elsbernd | review for The Sanctuary

In high school I started keeping track of all the books I finished. Once you start, you sort of feel funny not continuing the list. Now I feel bad I didn't start the list sooner. So, here it is, no longer a list on binder paper, but rather in a database and all that fancy jazz. Perhaps it'll be of some interest to you - getting a sense for my interests. But regardless, it's sort of a legacy thing for me.

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BOOK REVIEW

The Sanctuary Raymond Khoury

For Christmas, Secret Santa brought be a Kindle and the first book I bought to test it out was a recommendation by Amazon based on previous Thrillers I'd read: Raymond Khoury's The Sanctuary. I've probably seen his Templar book a million times on Amazon and elsewhere, but just never got around to trying him as an author.

Well, it was good, but something was just off about it, and I don't think it had to do with the Kindle reading experience (hard to get use to no page numbers and no ability to gauge one's progress by how thick the pages left to read were). I found myself even about 33% of the way through the book finding myself asking if I'd missed something. There was an awful lot of running around, people getting shot at, etc. but I didn't really have a sense for why. Not that they usually let you in on all the details early on in a thriller, but they do have to grab you. And I am not sure Khoury adequately grabbed me to keep me interested.

Without spoiling the ending, I will also add that there really wasn't much of anything to spoil. So in addition to being inadequately grabbed at the beginning, there was really no grand summation that made it all worthwhile and had me grabbing for the next novel by the author.

So, it was okay, but I am not in a hurry to see what else he's written.

Reviewed on Dec 27, 2009

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