Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Lee Child like the Shadow has the power to cloud people's minds. How else can you explain the success of his most recent book Never Go Back? Most of the reviews here are favorable. The New York Times gave the book a rave review. Why? I was a Reacher fan. I read every one of his books. The early ones were fantastic. They were as much fun as you could have with a book. Then the gradual decline. The last three were unreadable. In fact I couldn't finish them, but I still bought them because it was hard to give up the Reacher habit. It was like losing an old friend. First of all a novel has to be well written. This one wasn't. I found myself rereading sentences to see if he really wrote that. A High School English teacher would flunk him. Bad sentence structure full of cliches. The plot. I am not looking for realism here, after all it's Reacher, the smartest toughest most capable man on the planet. This plot seemed to be made up as he went along. It was silly, not clever, and the ending was a letdown. And the there is the filler, endless descriptions of cars, geography, and idle chatter. Doesn't this author have an editor? I am much older now than when I read my first Reacher Book and I have retired. It's time for tired old Reacher to do the same.