review: In Session by M.J. Rose

Posted by Cyn | Filed under Book Reviews, Reading

In Session: Dr. Morgan Snow with Steve Berry's Cotton Malone, Lee Child's Jack Reacher & Barry Eisler's John RainIn Ses­sion: Dr. Mor­gan Snow with Steve Berry’s Cot­ton Mal­one, Lee Child’s Jack Reacher & Barry Eisler’s John Rain by M.J. Rose

My rat­ing: 4 of 5 stars

I’ve never read any­thing by any of these authors before, so my per­spec­tive on this piece is prob­a­bly going to be skewed com­pared to that of most readers/​listeners. How­ever, it was free on Audi­ble briefly and looked inter­est­ing, so I added it to my library. I hap­pened to be in the car a long time today and this is what I had down­loaded on my iPad, so this is one of the things that I lis­tened to.

I found all three sto­ries to be very engag­ing, and found myself inter­ested in read­ing more about each char­ac­ter involved in the sto­ries. What fas­ci­nated me the most, though, was Rose’s account of how the sto­ries were writ­ten — the dif­fer­ent ways the authors chose to work with her, how she pre­pared to write from the point of view of other authors’ very well-​​known heroes, and so on. I would rec­om­mend this to any­one inter­ested in writ­ing as a cre­ative endeavor for that por­tion in particular.

The fact that the nar­ra­tors who nor­mally per­form the voices of each char­ac­ter in their own series appeared in this per­for­mance adds an addi­tional touch of pro­fes­sion­al­ism to the record­ing, as well.



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