The Book Project: The Cotton Malone Series

Friday, May 10, 2013

The Cotton Malone Series - Steve Berry

One Sentence Summary:
Cotton Malone is a retired agent of the US Department of Justice who keeps getting pulled in to ridiculous Indiana-Jones-esq adventures.
Review:
These are all great mystery-adventures with a lot of historical research to back them up. Real fly by the seat of your pants stories with lovable characters. Each novel (so far up to the seventh) has an individual plot with real character development (no regurgitation here like you get in some series). Written to about a grade nine level to appeal to the masses these are great airplane reads. I recommend them to anyone who is looking for an easy and entertaining adventure.
7/10

If you enjoyed him read books by James Rollins, Matthew Riley or Douglas Preston/Lincoln Child

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There are 3 possible ratings

The first is overall as in overall how good I think the book is

1-2 DO NOT READ,

3-4 Maybe read if you are in a cabin stuck for days and there is absolutely nothing else to read,

5-6 if you like the genre go for it,

7-8 if you think you might like the genre but aren't really sure go for it,

9-10 even if you hate the genre read this book

The second (which will be pink/purple) is the "smut rating", for trashy romance which rates totally on ease of read, story, sex and happy endings

The third (which will be in green because I like green) is "for the younger reader" as in would a young teen get a kick out of this and put down the XBox controller long enough to finish the book (that being 10/10)

Also I will categorize these books -

Elementary School (no sex/violence easy to read in grade 4 but subject appropriate for younger kids too),

Middle School (no sex, some violence but not nightmare inducing and easy to read at grade 6-9) and

High School (good enough for an adult but with teenage characters may include sex / violence OR coming of age stories OR a book I just think should be read before adulthood).