True Blue
Author: David Baldacci
Narrator: Ron McLarty
Unabridged: 14 hr 2 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Hachette Audio
Published: 10/27/2009
Category: Fiction - Suspense
Author: David Baldacci
Narrator: Ron McLarty
Unabridged: 14 hr 2 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Hachette Audio
Published: 10/27/2009
Category: Fiction - Suspense
Baldacci should have done more research on strong women before he wrote this deeply shallow and patently unbelievable conspiracy-theory hoohah. None of the women in this book come across as females. Mace, the protagonist, seems more like a teenage boy than a 30-yr-old woman, and her sister, Chief of Police Beth Mason, is just a backdrop for Mace's silliness. Even antagonist Mona, the standard conniving *****, seems like more of a cardboard stand-in for a stereotype. But the guys aren't much better. There are your automaton Federales-gone-bad contract killers, your looney over-zealous patriots, your super-rich altruists, and your slightly dense pseudo-boyfriend although the only time he actually comes on to Mace, she responds like . . . like a 16-yr-old boy, of course. It makes me think that one morning Baldacci got up and thought, OK, how could I rework some unpublished material into a chick-lit genre, without putting out too much effort? Epic fail.