The Jefferson Key

Okay, I have to preface this review with the fact that I don't normally read thrillers. I was interested in this book because of the history included. I did enjoy learning more about the history of piracy and privateering and it actually came in handy while playing a game of pirate minature golf with the kids one day. That said, I really had a hard time with all the guns and killing, especially the graphic details of acts of torture from the pirates, and no I don't normally squirm from gore, it was just so unnecessary and unrealistic being that it was set in modern times. I was also distracted by the author's continual switching back and forth between the different plot lines. I don't usually mind that technique, but this was extreme, happening literally after one or two sentences in some cases. My last critique was the over use of the phrase ingress and egress. I thought it was creative vocabulary usage the first time it appeared, but after the third or fourth time it was distracting and I thought that a simple entrance or exit would have sufficed.