Echo Burning

There's little new in this Jack Reacher novel...and much that Child has done before again and again -- usually with more interesting results.

The plot's flat and there is precious little to keep you listening. I felt it was "okay." Certainly NOT outstanding.

This book started off good. The story was interesting and the narration was great, but about 2/3 of the way thru the book I became so annoyed as Jack Reacher slowly turned into a clarvoyant superman. It just became ridiculous! I had a very hard time finishing it. I'd recommend another book instead of this one.

Well written story. Good production. Dick Hill is a great narrator but he should not agree to do women voices or children. You are too male to do women, I have listen to him on other books Mr. Hill narrated they had a woman do their part. It worked much better. Mr. Hill I really wish you wouldn't sigh in the mics so much. But maybe I will learn not to hear it. Lee Childs wrote an interesting intriguing story. I truly enjoyed. Listener if you can get passed the things critized you can enjoy a well written book. I am glad I bought this book. Lee Childs will be a writer I look for again.

This was my third Jack Reacher book. The first two were great especially Killing Floor. It really got me into the Jack Reacher series. I didn't finish this one. If I was supposed to feel sorry for Carmen, I couldn't do it. Jack is a smart guy but he fell her story hook, line and sinker. Not like him in other the other books. He questions every thing. The book should have been over in the first two hours. Jack Reacher I've come to know in other books would have walked away.

Dick Hill is a great narrator of these stories and I'm glad Lee Child continues to use him. Love him as Reacher, but please never again have a grown man do a six year old girl's voice.

Yes, at some future point. I often reread books, and there's no reason not to relisten to an audible, especially when it is something I have enjoyed.I have been a fan of the Jack Reacher novels for several years. While I don’t recall which one I read first, I know I’d read several of the most recent ones before I decided to go back and read them all in chronological order. This particular one—Echo Burning—provided the answer to my “burning” question: why Did MP Jack Reacher end his military career? I won’t give that away in this review—I don’t want to spoil it for another who hasn’t had that question answered as yet. I’ll just say that as always, the plot is complex, the characters, though somewhat predictable, are interesting and believable. To sum it up, I find these novels to be “good reads,” and that’s what I look for in my leisure reading experience. By the way, this novel is my first experience with Audible/Kindle listening—the reader did a superb job in translating the written word into oral mode—voice, speech rhythm, diction, expression—all contributed to a very satisfactory experience. I’ve used recorded books for years as accompaniment to my exercise program, and as an antidote to insomnia—I enjoy the Audible experience more than dealing with a tape or CD player, especially during the night. I’ve learned that it is possible to attach a small speaker to the Kindle in place of my headphones when the volume isn’t quite as high as I’d like, and this will remedy my only, very slight, problem.

As you might expect, it was when I finally understood the reason behind Jack Reacher's resignation from the military, and his choice to live as a vagabond.

No, this was my first Dick Hill performance as a reader on a recorded book. I thoroughly enjoyed his contribution and would look forward to hearing him read some book in the future.

I don't think so--it is a very long book, for one thing, and that would be beyond my ability to stay involved, to say nothing of awake. But I enjoy

I wish there way a way to download to 3G Kindle other than via my computer. Takes at least two hours this way, and I'm a bit spoiled by the speed with which the written version is downloaded to my Kindle. I plan to acquire a Kindle Fire at some point and hope that the download process is speedier.

I'm a sucker for anything Jack Reacher. This book gets you thinking right from the first page and never lets up. Thank you Lee.

Child exaggerates this novel's characters to the point where they're not at all believable. The plot is the usual formula, and utterly predictable.

AUDIO: With the men, Hill isn't that bad, but he pulverizes the women. With the women whom Child portrays as strong, competent and smart, Hill makes them weak, whiney, and querulous. He thus destroys what little sense the plot might otherwise have made.

This was a new read for me. I find the character fun and mysterious. The story moves and twists and make the time fly. My kind of guy.

I am a big fan of Reacher, and Dick Hill as a narrator. But this book was very annoying. The two main women characters whined. Reacher would say something, and they would ignore what he said and just whine. The story was, as usual, compelling. I just wasn't crazy about the women characters and their inability to listen.

I had listened to one other Lee Child novel and found it to be just OK, but I saw this book on sale and thought I would give it a try. Well, I guess I will have to chalk it up to one more regrettable decision.

The whole premise of the story was totally unbelievable. A beautiful woman picks up a hitch hiker, and within a few minutes decides she trusts him enough to ask him to kill her husband, and within a few hours wants to sleep with him. The hitchhiker is hired by the beautiful woman's inlaws to work as a ranch hand and within one day he is telling the boss what to do.....and the boss does it! Oooh....he's a real bad dude, that one. Give me a break! The story was so over the top and boring that I can't believe I even finished it. I just figured with that many people giving it four stars it had to get better...but unfortunately it never did. Most of the 13 hours plus was nothing but empty and boring dialog that was obviously just written as filler since the plot was so shallow the book could have been a five hour read easily.

The action scenes were typical tough/smart guy beating up the clumsy bad guys. Childs does do a good job with the action scenes, but it was still glaringly apparent that this book was written just to meet a publishing contract. Although Dick Hill is one of my favorite audio performers, I would have to agree with some of the other reviewers that in this case, his female voices were rather whiny and annoying.

In summary then......Don't Waste your Time and Money on this one.