Acrobat

Rating:
Summary: A THRILLING read!
Review: I read this a while back,a nd am writing the review now, before the story is too lost in the old storage closets tucked away in the back of my memory.
Acrobat is a secret work-group within the CIA, they are a operatives that watch the things that nobody ele watches. Lead by Tom Carr these are the best. Hand selected from all over Langley thses five people together are a machine of efficiency. One of there jobs, though, goes wrong and they are forced to go on the run.
This book is sharply written with the best details in the action-heavy areas that I have ever read, car chases hostage situations where people are unaware of the danger they face, everything. The book then does a flip in a plot twist that will leave you amazed! Four stars because at times I get a bit dissappointed in the decisions made.

Rating:
Summary: Wow
Review: I wasn't expecting much--but was I blown away! I read it in two days flat. The characters are almost more real than real people. The beginning is brilliant, but the ending threw me for the biggest loop. It reminded me of The Usual Suspects and the Sixth Sense--I never saw it coming. I highly recomend this amazing novel.

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Summary: Fun reading for Alias and Italian Job fans
Review: If you're looking for a good, fast summer read, with savvy, stylish and young protagonists, I think you'll come away from this book happy. I did. The plot takes a couple of devilish twists, the tension never stops and the writing carries you along. Sure, Acrobat is no literary masterpiece, but you want to be entertained first and foremost, right?

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Summary: Certainly NOT CIA's Best.....
Review: If you're looking for a well-written, engaging thriller, look elsewhere. Lira never touches the potential of his own plot. His writing is haphazard and confusing, he continually flips between writing in the current and past tenses, even in the same sentence. I found my jaw sore from gritting my teeth everytime the author used to the word 'poop'. The characters are flimsy and unbelievable. They are so underdeveloped that you frankly don't care what happens to them.

Despite the claims of a 'perfectly twisted ending', it was an intense relief when the book ended just so I could get on to reading something else.

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Summary: This Is Unbelievable Stuff! (and not the good kind)
Review: Influenced by the glowing reviews on Amazon and on the back cover, I toted Acrobat to the beach. Fifty pages in, I was scrambling to find something - anything - else to read. It's that bad. Writers in particular will find Lira's style completely baffling. Although I'm all for breaking the rules, Lira's annoying habit of switching points of view between multiple characters in the same scene (sometimes within just a few lines) is confusing, and ultimately, pointless.

The only thing that prodded me through this was the promise of a surprising twist at the end. One Amazon reviewer even compared it to the twists at the end of The Usual Suspects and The Sixth Sense. Ha! No doubt this same reviewer will be surprised to learn that Anakin Skywalker turns out to be Darth Vader!

Acrobat's ending, while mildly amusing, is simply the inevitable conclusion to a confusing and wildly unbelievable CIA thriller. Skip this one - if you must read about Acrobat, pick up The Idiot's Guide to Adobe Acrobat instead.

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Summary: oh poop!!!
Review: one question to those who've read acrobat:

have you EVER seen the word "poop" in print as many times as you did in this book????

thankfully, the plot didn't poop out and i thoroughly enjoyed it.

karen







Rating:
Summary: good book
Review: Very solid book. Non-Formulatic. Character structure is very good.