After writing this review, I am beginning to think that I really should have just given up on it – even though it’s not my normal mantra to stop reading a book halfway. After how hard I worked to read through it, there weren’t even any satisfying answers. ![]() The number of unanswered questions left hanging in this book just really stings. I suppose you might like this book if you like an almost-Olympian, big and strong female lead? There are so many names, so many characters, and we wonder how they’re all connected – it was a bit confusing to keep track of all of them as we just kept meeting more and more people to add to the mess of a situation. I would have a hard time recommending this book. Multiple times I even thought about just stopping and giving up, but there was one short part in the middle that I actually found quite thrilling so that gave me just enough energy to just go right through to the end. I had a very hard time reading some parts as it seemed incredibly long and boring. Sure there was a lot of action in our classic “lone wolf” FBI investigation, but I thought we were here to uncover the truth about her lost sister? That whole part was apparently just a bit of tragic backstory (and motivation), and not much else. I will admit that Atlee is a pretty cool and badass character, but that was probably the only redeeming quality of this book. Many, many things happen in this book as Atlee travels all of America to essentially fight a conspiracy. This book gives me some “woman POV clearly written by a man” vibes, and truly all the extraneous details through me for a loop and bored me. There were also a lot of details in the book that I felt like were completely unnecessary, or just little thoughts and tidbits given that I felt were also out of place. I suppose this is just supposedly book 1, but for a book literally named after her sister, she is almost irrelevant. The whole mystery simply revolves another threat that is completely irrelevant to the kidnapping of Atlee’s sister. It wasn’t about going back to her hometown, or revisiting that night with new evidence, nope. In actuality, almost nothing in the book is related to the disappearance of her sister. 30 years later, Atlee is still on the hunt for what happened to her sister. Her tragic backstory includes a twin sister who was kidnapped at age 6 from their own house – a man had snuck in and spoke a nursery rhyme to choose which sister he would take. Long Road to Mercy follows an FBI special agent, Atlee Pine, who specializes in the rural part of West America. ![]() And the title and backstory don’t even really make sense to me? Let’s just say I borderline didn’t finish it. It also had elements of suspense and thrillers but it was just….so boring. For what is supposedly a mystery book, I had such a hard time reading through this. But unless Pine keeps working the case and discovers the truth, it could spell the very end of democracy in America as we know it… If she disobeys direct orders by continuing to search for the missing man, it will mean the end of her career. But just as Pine begins to put together clues pointing to a terrifying plot, she’s abruptly called off the case. It soon seems clear the lost tourist had something more clandestine than sightseeing in mind. So when one of the Grand Canyon’s mules is found stabbed to death at the bottom of the canyon-and its rider missing-Pine is called in to investigate. She’s the lone agent assigned to the Shattered Rock, Arizona resident agency, which is responsible for protecting the Grand Canyon. Three decades after that terrifying night, Atlee Pine works for the FBI. ![]() It’s seared into Atlee Pine’s memory: the kidnapper’s chilling rhyme as he chose between six-year-old Atlee and her twin sister, Mercy. and an old nightmare.Įeny, meeny, miny, moe. Introducing a remarkable new character from #1 New York Times bestselling writer David Baldacci: Atlee Pine, an FBI agent with special skills assigned to the remote wilds of the southwestern United States who must confront a new threat.
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