Reviews for The Zero Hour

The average rating for The Zero Hour based on 2 reviews is 2.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-10-17 00:00:00 James Mann This is my first book by this author. It is about terrorism in New York and I may have been able to give this 4 stars if it wasn't for one big problem. The problem is that I have read this kind of story before. I think the author (a male) was writing through the eyes of the antagonist ( a male) and not through his MC who happened to be female. It was like the female was there only to be manipulated and duped so that the antagonist could shine. Really.....she did nothing but fall into trap after trap. She didn't even get the bad guy in the end. She was just a tool and it would have been best to have relegated her to a lesser role. I really hated that part of this because it has been so many times and there was really nothing that set this book apart from the herd. Now if the author had reversed this and had the antagonist as the female and the protagonist as the male maybe it would have been better. Granted, that has been done before too, but not nearly as much as the first scenario. I did like the plot as a whole...so 3 stars.

Review # 2 was written on 2013-04-06 00:00:00 Michael Donohue I decided to buy, then read this book based on the synopsis and on the fact that this was also a new Author for me. I really like to try new authors to expand my reading horizons. It was actually a very disappointing and boring read. What I read in the description never even happened in the book till more than halfway through it. I felt like the synopsis was very misleading. There was so much unnecessary back story and government explanations that I almost abandoned the book, but I kept on till I finished. Once it did actually begin to pick up, it got very predictable. The characters of the story were not even likable either. So I feel the 2 stars is a very generous rating for this book.