I read the book, Scarecrow, by Mathew Reilly. It is about a super-soldier, Captain Shane Schofield, call sign the scarecrow, who is on an international bounty hunt. The list comprises of fifteen targets, from all over the world, who have to be dead by noon the next day. The price on their heads: $18.6 million each. So all of a sudden, the scarecrow is thrust into a fight for his life, with no idea why he is targetted, and who is targetting him. With help from his friends, he continues to survive while trying to find out everything that is happening at the same time.
My favorite character in this book is David Fairfax. He is the one that checks out everything for the scarecrow. He looks up people, records and everything for captain Schofield. He is the one that makes everything possible, but he works behind the scenes, unnoticed by anyone until the scarecrow sends him as a field agnet. He is very intelligent, and was able to crack a code the pentagon could not using an ordinary laptop. He is very good at breaking codes and hacking into classified records, unfortunately something he cannot boast about.
I like this author, Mathew Reilly, because he write super-fast-paced books that keep one reading on. The whole book 'scarecrow', is of 12 hours of non-stop fighting. The main characters are actually finding things out while fighting for their lives at the same time. He has this writing style that has a lot of description, and they are over a very short time span. At the end of the book, he makes you look back and think "hey, all this actually happened so fast, in so short a time span??"
Think i'll try finding this book and reading it during the September hols. Nice blog weiyang. Keep up the good work!!
ReplyDeleteSo basically, you like this book as it is fast-paced and you like the style of the book right? I personally feel that fast-paced books are nice but some of them do not really provide enough details within the content itself. That is exactly how it becomes a fast paced book right? But maybe you might think differently, this is just an opinion of mine though. Thanks for the post.
ReplyDeleteJack Tan 1O307
I feel that your contents are not really sufficient as it is only a paragraph long. Well, that is my opinion after all. You may want to feed us with more details to attract us to want to read this book. However, your book review should be considered as straight to the point. I kind of like it as you gave a detailed analysis on the author and your favourite character. Quite a job well done!
ReplyDeleteDarrel Chua 1o303
Not enough posts!!! How come?!!!
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