BOOO, HISSS! There, I got that out of my system. Almost. I have just finished reading “Greyson Gray: Rubicon”, the fourth in a series by B.C. Tweedt. Mr. Tweedt is really good at cliffhangers. For a recap:
1. Greyson Grey: Camp Legend – 3-1/2 stars, Greyson discovers a terrorist plot at his summer camp. 12-year-old mixed with James Bond.
2. Greyson Grey: Fair Game – 3 stars – Greyson’s nemesis attacks the Iowa County Fair. “Oh, I can quit after this one…wait a minute….CLIFFHANGER!”
3. Greyson Grey: Deadfall – 3-1/2 stars, Greyson treks across America in chaos, trying to find his father. Another CLIFFHANGER! “But at least there are only 4 books in the series, I can do this!”
4. Greyson Grey: Rubicon – 3 stars…ummmm….CLIFFHANGER, and no 5th book, not even in the works.
This book was almost all “action”, lots of fighting and chaos and trying to figure out who the good guys are. In fact, they do not figure that out by the end of book four, saying to stay tuned for book five. But when I went to see when book five was going to come out, I found a statement from the author that he had gotten sidetracked by other projects, and it might be YEARS. By then, thankfully, I will have forgotten to care who the good guys are, or if now-15-year-old Greyson will work up the courage to lock lips with Sydney.
There were RINO (yes, “rhino”) crowd control machines, and millions of drones that could tell whether you were a friendly or not, and shoot you, and launch missiles, and…and…and… Worse than that, one drone, named LIAM in honor of a fallen teen compatriot, was continually being anthropomorphized, to the extreme, with “dimming hope”, “sensors grew frustrated”, admiring a beautiful community, and so forth.
Honestly, I get bored with “action” and fighting. Particularly 466 pages and 85 chapters of fighting. I would love to know how it ends up; does America have a civil war? Do the two evil teenaged assassins find Greyson once again? But it is not to be. 3 stars for a fun read, but ultimate disappointment.