Review: Make Me: (Jack Reacher 20) by Lee Child (Goodreads Author)

Make Me: by Lee Child
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Make Me is the 20th novel in Lee Child’s iconic Jack Reacher Series. Having been slightly disappointed with the last couple of books in one of my favorite series, I was looking forward to this latest addition.

I have grown to love Jack Reacher since I read the 1st book in the series….. a military cop-turned-drifter, who travels around America, the only possessions he has with him are a toothbrush and his ATM bank card….owns no house, no car….no material possessions expect as mentioned the two above…not even clothes..he buys new ones when required whilst throwing old ones in the garbage. He’s a man totally off the grid!!!! He goes anywhere he wants, when he wants and answers to no one!!! And along his travels, he meets characters and gets involved with situations that are of interest to him…..and this latest story is exactly that…….

First page…..

Twenty miles north the train slowed, and slowed, and then eased to a hissing stop, and the doors sucked open, and Jack Reacher stepped down to a concrete ramp in front of a grain elevator as big as an apartment house

But on a sign board running its whole length was written the reason Reacher was there: Mother's Rest. Which he had seen on a map, and which he thought was a great name for a railroad stop.

Either way Reacher figured he might as well find out

He’s just passing through Mother’s Rest because …well just because!!!

But within minutes, he gets involved in something that gives him a reason to stay more than just one night in this small and obscure town.
He meets Michelle Chang, a PI looking for her missing partner who disappeared in Mother’s Rest, after his last call to her.

This town has secrets that just wet Reacher’s appetite. Dodgy and secretive characters who know more about the town’s history. Teaming up with Michelle, they are soon on a dangerous mission that takes them to Oklahoma City, Los Angles and Chicago and back to Mother’s Rest to finally discover the terrible and horrifying secrets of the town.

Wow, the writer certainly kept me guessing….never did I even think that the secrets of the town were what they were.

I enjoyed this book even though there was a bit too much information on guns and other things.

All in all, a good addition to the series.

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