{"id":302,"date":"2017-02-02T16:00:34","date_gmt":"2017-02-02T23:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/?p=302"},"modified":"2017-09-10T16:04:48","modified_gmt":"2017-09-10T22:04:48","slug":"book-hard-road-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2017\/02\/02\/book-hard-road-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"BOOK: Hard Road (2013)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"HardHard Road<\/u><\/strong>
\nYear: 2013
\nAuthor: J.B. Turner
\nLength: 322 pages<\/p>\n

***THIS BOOK WAS RECEIVED FROM A GOODREADS GIVEAWAY***<\/p>\n

I\u2019m finding that I really like the thriller genre, and books like this convince me that it\u2019s the most exciting genre out there. Practically from page one, the pace is set and is blindingly fast. There\u2019s no time to rest when the fate of the nation is at stake. Equal parts Liam Neeson from Taken<\/em> (2008) and Tom Cruise from Jack Reacher<\/em> (2012), Jon Reznick is skilled beyond measure and I wouldn\u2019t be surprised if this novel is made into a film of its own. That being said, I don\u2019t really know why this book was called Hard Road<\/em> other than all the driving that takes place in it.<\/p>\n

J.B. Turner manages to keep the reader in the dark about much of the plot that thrusts Reznick into a race against time and terrorists until about half-way through this book. While this was an impressive feat, part of me almost wanted little hints as to what the grand scheme of the book was about so I could have more \u201caha\u201d moments instead of huge surprises that pushed the plot forward. I also appreciated that Reznick was supported by the federal authorities (which he, in turn, supported), instead of being brought in as a rogue element in a critical operation.<\/p>\n

Hard Road<\/em> easily wraps up its plot and leaves very few open strings or questions. The hint of a possible second book in the epilogue is all the reader is given in terms of a link to a greater series as a whole. I certainly liked that this story was self-contained, but the character of Jon Reznick was so engaging that I look forward to picking up the other books in this series and reading them at some point. After all, I\u2019m curious if he and the Assistant Director of the FBI get together\u00a0since there seemed to be some good chemistry between these characters.<\/p>\n

A high-octane and breathlessly paced thriller, I give Hard Road<\/em> 4.0 stars out of 5.<\/p>\n

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Hard Road Year: 2013 Author: J.B. Turner Length: 322 pages ***THIS BOOK WAS RECEIVED FROM A GOODREADS GIVEAWAY*** I\u2019m finding that I really like the thriller genre, and books like this convince me that it\u2019s the most exciting genre out there. Practically from page one, the pace is set and is blindingly fast. There\u2019s no […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,54],"tags":[121,55,343,342,346,344,8,345,19],"class_list":["post-302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4-0-stars","category-book","tag-121","tag-book","tag-hard-road","tag-j-b-turner","tag-jack-reacher","tag-jon-reznick","tag-review","tag-taken","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":698,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions\/698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}