Tuesday, September 30, 2025

September book(s)

Started month off with the massive revenge classic the count of monte cristo by alexandre dumas

The book that held her heart by mark lawrence. Part 3 of the book that wouldn’t burn series. I’m not good at audiobooks but that’s what was available at the library. I better concentrate!

Terminal velocity a tom Clancy jack ryan jr novel by m.p. Woodward. Reviewed (mistakes) in a separate post.

One golden summer by carley fortune. Summer lakehouse romcom. Hum

The book of lost hours by Hayley gelfuso. Another library time travel book with nazis in the same month? Ok.

Forget me not by Stacy willingham. An entertaining suspense with tons of reveals…at the end.

The bewitching by Silvia Moreno-Garcia. Mexican-new England dark academia 

Tuesday, September 16, 2025

M.p. Woodward jacks it up again. A review of tom clancy’s terminal velocity, a jack ryan jr novel by m.p. Woodward

I wasn’t too impressed with m.p. Woodward’s previous tom Clancy novel with all the ammunition mistakes, but authors can improve, right? Well, terminal velocity was an entertaining read but still lacks an attention to detail that tom Clancy fans are used to.

Chapter 8 he’s referring to ammunition clips again when he most likely means magazines, unless people really carry spare clips into a fight to reload magazines instead of actual magazines. 

A mujahideen owns an old landcruiser truck which turns into a Land Rover truck 12 pages later. He goes to each wheel to “engage the locking differentials”. No. Just no. You might go to the front wheels to engage the hubs so that the front wheels go from freewheeling to being driven so you now have four wheel drive. You can’t lock the diffs from the wheels.

Refers to a f250 as an suv. Talks about locking differentials at all four wheels. Lockers are literally only at the differentials not the wheels. Mixes up names of two characters near the end.

A little research or editing would easily solve these issues. Either way I’ll be there to check out his next Clancy attempt at the library.