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Interesting. Not riveting, interesting.
Only skips have been his family BG, BG on meeting/marrying the wife, and convincing her she'll love Bahrain.
Otherwise, I'm reading every word.

Novel seems to engage more as it progresses, but still has skimmability.

Still skimmable, but holds interest

a little bloat = easily recognizable skim parts.

Holding interest, pace is stepping up, but still too much bloat = very much skimmable.

The hook is great.
After that it becomes very much skimmable.
Example: a little over a page on protagonist's expository meandering thoughts against an action device of out the garbage.
Another thing; Cook is/was a real life doctor/surgeon. Accordingly, the book is rife with highly technical medical terminology {procedures, medicines, surgical tools, etc.} which, for the most part, aren't explained/defined.

It's picking up, now that we're headed to the exciting denouement.

Ludlum slammed the brakes on this book when he brought on the romance trope.
Very much skim-worthy for about 15% of the book so far.

Something about Ludlum's style misses for me, can't put my finger on it = had same problem with 1st Bourne, which I DNF'ed {perhaps wrong thing to do, because this one's coming into its own}.
Expository, drifts around too much, vague references to aspects that previously happened = gotta' keep up pretty good attention to details about things , as well as maintaining a good memory, or ya' miss stuff.
Holding interest.

Although there have been twists and turns, still think I have this figured out.

So, we have tangents like med school fun with cadavers that have nothing to do with the story.
We have a plot advancements that don't advance the plot, just move us to the next person who knows nothing about what the protagonist seeks to find other than the next person who knows nothing about...

Holding interest.
Suspect how this'll turn out, but we'll see.

Still enjoying it, it's still holding interest as we come into the climax.

Holding interest.

Expository in the extreme = wa-a-ay overwritten.

Satire = typical Vonnegut.

Overly descriptive.

Interesting history of Halloween coupled with the ways different cultures have celebrated it {if that's the right word} through time.

A little repetitive