Transfer of Power

by Vince Flynn
Continuing the trend, this is the second book in the Protect and Defend series by Vince Flynn. I'm starting to get a little sick of his writing style. It actually reminds me of McCarthy's, believe it or not! I mean, he uses punctuation, but he always uses the, um, declarative sentences, was it? Where he starts it with the noun? It's a very straightforward way of writing. Also, he tends to get into excessive detail about things that I don't understand. Actually, he just likes guns a lot. So every time someone has a gun or uses a gun or even thinks about a gun, he has to describe the make and number and how much it weighs and where it was made and all these annoying little details that I really don't care about. And since this is a book about how terrorists take over the White House and then the CIA has to get them out, there are a lot of guns. I swear, a quarter of the book is just the descriptions of guns. I don't think I'm going to make it through all 11 books in this series if it continues on like this.
On the other hand, the story was really good. Like I said, these terrorists come in and take over the White House, 12 of them against the entire US. Flynn tells half the story from their leader's point of view, which I like because I can totally see where he's coming from, instead of just assuming that he's an insane, deranged maniac. Then again, he actually is an insane, deranged maniac, so maybe I'm imagining things.

Oh yeah, and remember Garret? He got sniped off at the end of the book. Made me very happy.

Merry Christmas!

~Marcella