Reviews for 'Midnight in Madrid (The Russian Trilogy, Book 2)'

Average Rating: 3.0
Total Reviews: 49



=== Review #1 ===
Rating: 2
Summary: Could have been a lot better than it is
After reading Conspiracy in Kiev, which I have downloaded the book - because the first was pretty good and I feel compelled me to follow signs. Unfortunately, we read Midnight in Madrid, not a terribly fun. Much of it reads like a textbook. While I have nothing against educated in reading a novel that educational material should be at least in the same format and somewhat interesting, but it is soporific. The writing technique Moore himself occasionally. In one paragraph, which consisted of three sentences, the word was "very" is used four times. This is just one example, but there are some places where the syntax is so remarkable that you are no longer in your title. I am not used to, distracted by things like this when reading a published novel. And then there is the obvious agenda of religion and anti-government sentiments. Also I am not one of the two themes in my reading to meet, but there is no connection. There are only random statements about the sometimes controversial ideas with no explanation, no supporting facts, nothing thrown. I can only assume it is the author's own opinions are expressed, if they are strangers to the action.

These are the bones of a good story here, but I can not overlook all these things that I would be any enjoyment to be spoiled. All in all, I am very disappointed.



=== Review #2 ===
Rating: 5
Summary: Don't listen to the nonsense, it's a great read !

These two books were "Midnight in Madrid" and "Conspiracy in Kiev," by a gang of idiots, the Kindle, they downloaded, just because they were free to attack without knowing anything about it. Then discovered that they were released from a "Christian" publishing house and they felt would be fed Christian propaganda, they gave the books' star ratings, even without ever opening them, or when they believe that they can read.



Well, let me tell you, I would not read nor Christian propaganda! But as anyone who actually starts to learn to read these books, they are not "Christian" books ever.



These are exciting espionage, intrigue and excitement of action stories that are in "hot spots" around the world, with outstanding research and historical background, a variety of interesting characters of various nationalities, with lots of color, and an engaging heroine of protagonists who happens easily be religious, but whose religion plays only a minor role in the entire history. I am completely a-religious and religious, even anti-, but there was nothing in these books that offended me or at me.



I stumbled across these books by accident that the author never ever find one, what could I lose with a free book. I have no idea why these books were published by a Christian publishing house rather than a general publisher, but they are excellent espionage and intrigue pounds. Not great literature by any means, but page turning, exciting stories, you do not want to put down. If you opt for an entertaining reading, and as international tension, for it to go.



=== Review #3 ===
Rating: 5
Summary: Fantastic book!

Amazing book. I could not put it down from the first chapter. I wish it would be an ongoing series ... Noel has a wonderful opportunity to educate the reader, taking you on the edge of your seat. I look forward to reading future publications of the author!



=== Review #4 ===
Rating: 2
Summary: Good plot, but poorly written.

This book was offered for free on the Kindle for a few days and had some good reviews, so I will be downloading them. The subject also appealed to me because I spent my first years of the university in Madrid from 1986-87, but has not yet returned. While I enjoyed the trip to Spain, unfortunately, the book takes a lot of cutting. I was not even aware that this is a "Christian" book. I am not personally religious, and a little more in advance of this agenda would have been nice. That is, it was interesting to read something designed for the audience. Apparently, Graphics and gratuitous violence is OK, but not sex, and profanity.



Pros


Good story-line


-Interesting characters


-Detailed descriptions of the history and geography



Cons


-Writing is repetitive and descriptions are used again and again all points are in front.


-Poor use of language, in English and Spanish, including a few serious grammatical errors.


-Inadequate understanding of the technology. This is a modern day novel of international espionage and secret agents, so that the characters are focusing a lot on computers, cell phones, etc. However, the author used the wrong words in several places and do not understand how these devices. For example, he has the main character with a "GPS compass" to find their way through tunnels under the earth. GPS devices need a clear view of the sky to receive weak signals from satellites and do not work in the house, let alone underground.


Flat and boring philosophical and religious dialogue. Again, I have not read any other Christian fiction, but I have read and studied the Bible and religion. The religious content here seemed forced and was not very deep.



=== Review #5 ===
Rating: 2
Summary: Great but flawed
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It made me want to continue to read. Not many books that interest me anymore. Beautiful contrast between the recent past and present Spain Spain with all its demographic problems and their "rojos" vs. "fachas" old-fashioned ideological hatred.

I am a little disappointed that the proof did not do their job well. There are terrible typos in the street and defects in the common phrases:

"tu abuela se esta murienda" should "muriendo.
No, they can not, "ella no puede" is a literal translation.
"soy aqui" should be: "estoy aqui"
"vamos al trabajo" should "vamos a trabajar"
The King of Spain Juan Carlos I, not II

Overall, very pleasing, but the typing and literal translation made me cringe. Too bad.



=== Review #6 ===
Rating: 4
Summary: OK for a Kindle freebie

I think my rating is a 3.5 stars rounded up to 4 I enjoyed the information on art theft, but also to much of a good is a disadvantage and the author can too limited. I guessed this was from a Christian publishing house, because some of the dialogue to the religious beliefs that you do not see in your typical thriller associated published, and although I do not think did much to history, it is certainly behind the missionary. Unfortunately, I have never been sufficiently interested to examine the main character, to buy or even read another free book in the series, but that just means it was not specific to my taste. I prefer more twists and humor in my thrillers (ala Harlan Coben), and Midnight in Madrid does not really contain much either, imo.



=== Review #7 ===
Rating: 5
Summary: Practice Reading on My New Kindle is a Big Hit!
I read everything about the card, and go a bit too. I love books, and have generally negative impulses to new technologies that would interfere with their appearance and feel. But I was downsizing from a house, apartment and took me almost killed all of these books. I was excited when I unwrapped my new Kindle in hospital for Christmas!

I picked up a wing shot at the first book that showed up on the Amazon bestseller list. I pretty much expect a best seller, which would be reduced to me an expectation. Do not get me wrong, I wanted to read fast, exciting and pleasant, and I was not disappointed.

The Kindle was working transparently, as I turn myself up to the side of the corner, to forget the key. And the show itself was absolutely great. How come I have traveled recently in Spain and have plenty of experience in China, the two most prominent cultural excursions (for an American) on the way in this spy adventure called Midnight in Madrid (they were elsewhere at about 8 PM the planet).

Spain was the real life, as the larger context of a world and a time when the power of fear over faith. We covenant, the destructive power of the uncivilized certainties of faith, as we struggle with the necessarily ironic remove from among us who know how to read. The earth is crying for Ernst, as well as David Foster Wallace was the statement, before he checked out for good.

We who read and write - just as the spies among us must - know that compromises are made, if we stay healthy and decent. We give a post-modern 'yeah yeah' double-positive claims, rather than abstract truth, say something stupid, if it ever book. Especially when it is reified. We are probably the most wicked range of major powers in the world frighten our careless arrogant answer to the inevitable recoil from their own manipulations.

Spain is the perfect backdrop for a subtle battle of the titans, the United States and China. The story she has to work together, while below, there are massive cultural divisions. They receive them through the lens of the romantic inclinations of both the characters' studied, and - more importantly - that of the reader. Hynd plays skillfully practiced with our expectations.

In this case, the Chinese side of their output is a pulse of banned Christian faith, a man who has not been abused. The urge is therefore necessarily biased. The American side is hardly a super-structure of Jaded chalance not, incidentally, he included his influence. We'll come presented in a way, almost perfect use of the British film implicitly make in any good spy novel. British composure in the face of death and cold limey serene security of cultural superiority is always present by his absence from the Americans to doubt the bar yet - but ironically - and thus advertising for themselves.

We almost missed the bomb under our own feet, by a letter of intent and our quirks routine. As a reader of novels, I think, and as a carrier of the alleged time and always banner of freedom. We look so stupid dressed in a multicultural Mufti, while the Chinese sharp looks. But this is not Bush's strutting. That is those who have worked under the guise of survival in the idiot wind of politics. They openly cursing, drinking whiskey and cigar chomp probably get away with in a way that not more politicians.

Hynd not constitute an agency, but the reality of competing and overlapping responsibilities both within and between national divides. Alex, the female protagonist, is an impossible task to decide who is trusted, based on what information is being withheld from Basel. You will have to refuse the information from their own superiors, and from whom they trust with their lives. Inevitably they will ask what they need to withhold from him, brings the reader right in the same place, which is such a master like John Le Carre do almost always. Leakage charming open with the difference that the world is not gloomily over.

On the way towards the depths of what compromises might be needed and remain a man among the living, and how deeply they could reach the soul of a man who would also be decent and keep involved in the world on the right track, the real core of Christian belief is suspended, without mawkery or clean simplicity track.

I understand that the printing of this book is a Christian publishing house. I do not want, except that I bescheid-in through the knee-jerk assumption among people like me that none of those who could be released "Left Behind have come to know well." But speaking as one who is too stupid to the difference between Saturday Night Live and TV evangelists - along the vector of irony, seriousness - if they are teaching me about God, they are hardly so in a manner offensive to an atheist smart say enough, neither name nor him to be sure that science will always truing.



=== Review #8 ===
Rating: 2
Summary: Problem with Republican Christianity

As an action / adventure novel, Midnight in Madrid, I give good marks, but I'm so tired of the God is a conservative Republican mantra and everything it entails. There was fine, but obviously Diggs on Hilary Clinton and Barack Obama. The author's support for conservative U.S. foreign policy is also obvious. As much as I am a Christian heroine who attends church and prays welcome, as a democrat and progressive Christian, I can not in good conscience recommend this series.



=== Review #9 ===
Rating: 1
Summary: Second Rate Adventure, First Rate Christian Babble
Sorry, it was terrible ... Only, what was beautiful was that on Christmas Day free. Save yourself some frustration and buy a Clive Cussler book, if you have a free but enjoyable adventure Paperback want.



=== Review #10 ===
Rating: 3
Summary: smart female lead character
i downloaded the book, because it was free. I found it enjoyable, because it easy to read, which I turned me up, but had also to art. I agree though in parts it felt like reading a history book, they could have handled some of these. I also agree that the smart "set to" lead character is lost to me at the end when they near death experience, "said Yahoo! i wouldnt have the book but cannot complain when its free paid.