London Bridges was full of the action and drama I expect
from an Alex Cross book. The past couple had taken a little of that away; they
were more about Alex and Sampson’s personal lives with a side of action and
crime fighting.
In London Bridges, two of Alex’s worst customers team up to
cause mass destruction for seemingly no other reason than being terrorists. The
Weasel and The Wolf are back and they are stronger than ever.
Alex has a few days and a strict deadline to meet The Wolf’s
monetary demands, or major cities around the world will be blown to pieces. With
the weight of that and trying to keep his family happy on his shoulders, Alex
has to fight through the stress and keep his mind focused on catch The Weasel and
The Wolf.
The Wolf is one of the most dangerous villains Cross has
ever come up against. Even with him being crazy and mysterious, I just really
couldn’t like him as a villain. I liked the story line of Alex trying to figure
out the case, but The Wolf himself was kind of uninteresting to me.
But, on the other hand, he was also super mysterious and it
made me want to know who he was and why he was so set on causing to harm to so
many people.
I have to say I was pretty disappointed by the end of the book.
Alex finally encounters The Wolf, but we as readers learn absolutely nothing
aside from a name. If the next book doesn’t at least give some follow up story
then I am pretty confused as to why The Wolf was around for two whole novels.
Spoiler for my reason under the read more further down the
page
4/5 I really liked this book, but I still don’t really
understand The Wolf, and depending on how the next one starts, the ending
seemed like a bit of a cop-out
Also, I already have a HUGE fear of bridges, so reading about bridges being blown up wasn't the most delightful thing in the world!
Read ahead for spoilers!
I feel like The Weasel and The Wolf both got pretty lame
deaths. Yeah, I was happy that Alex got to kill The Weasel himself, but it was
just so sudden. He never got to question him about why he had resurfaced and
why he was working with The Wolf.
Then we get to learn ABSOLUTELY nothing from The Wolf
because he decides to poison himself as soon as Alex finally catches him.
I think the end was ill-written as we don't get to know any detail about the wolf, the man who got the plastic surgery, or even why Klara signed her letter as "Wolf"
ReplyDeletei made a little research on the net and it appears that the wolf appeared only in this book and his prequel ! I am really disappointed/frustrated right now !