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wrote the best, most exciting story I could possibly write featuring a female lead, Pia Sabel, I hope you find her an engaging, thoughtful, caring, and above all asskicking, no excuses heroine,
I attempted to portray women in leadership roles who can plan and execute a complex mission without their primary conversations revolving around sex and fashion.
I modeled these women after the women in my life,
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just the type of book that kept my heart pumping and my eyes glued to the pages.
literally. the style of writing slowly pulls you in, and without realizing it, half the day is gone! the action never leaves you wanting more, and especially, you see the other side, the unknown factor in what it takes to be the best of the best and surviving against all odds.
bring on the next book in the series, because quite frankly, I can't wait to find out what will happen to our characters!! A new action series featuring Pia Sabel, former Olympic soccer player taking over dad's security firm.
Pia is smart, naive and a quick learner as she goes to the 'field' in a fastpaced romp between Africa and Europe to uncover a web of intrigue no spoilers here! This one will certainly keep your attention and entertain.
I had a little trouble keeping track of who was who as there are a number of players/characters amp a bit over the top sometimes with Pia's new career change.
This is a great first book and I look forward to Pia's further adventures, Pia Sabel is a strong female character, a former champion soccer player, An heiress, her dad gives her the security firm he's built and she is off and running with a strange mystery.
Bankers in Geneva are being murdered, So Pia heads up the investigation one of the bankers had requested the company's service, This takes Pia and her team, some of whom think she's a worthless rich kid who knows nothing, into Africa and back to unravel a tangled web of mayhem.
The pacing is quick and the dialogus good, and there's plenty of action, Good escape reading. Great thriller featuring a woman character heroine with other women in prominent roles, And none of them discuss shoes or men, These women actually strategize and discuss plans with each other, Then she goes off and kicks ass better than any other female lead in literature today, Highly recommended. More at sitelink SeeleyJames, com This review is of an ebook copy provided to me by the author via the Goodreads Group Making Connections, in return for my fair and impartial review.
James tells the kind of story I enjoy, one with a strong protagonist struggling against heavy odds in a contemporary and realistic setting slotted into an intricate plot that shifts between exotic destinations.
The story is fast paced and well written,
The heroine is unusual, a young soccer star, Pia Sabel, who inherits Sabel Security from her very wealthy stepfather.
Early in her life, her parents were assassinated and she was adopted, Growing up in this privileged environment she thrived in sports and became a star, The confidence and insights she developed on the soccer field stand her in good stead in her new position,
When the banker her team is protecting is killed in Geneva, she is propelled into an international chase involving other murdered Geneva bankers, millions in missing money and hijacked tankers.
The team of hardened men and women she gathers around her to chase the elusive foe view her as a neophyte who may compromise their safety and the success of the mission.
Her father urges her to come home and accept a desk job running the business, She refuses. Along the way she makes mistakes and some enemies,
The shifts in action from Geneva to the Cameroons to Vienna make it an interesting read, The only quibble I have with the book is some unrealistic aspects of Pia, the protagonist, The book chronicles many fights in which she performs almost superhuman feats, albeit tempered by realistic emotions of fear, In my opinion the author should have reduced the number of these encounters, and deepened those threads that sketched her character.
Nevertheless, a good holiday read,
An heiress wants to know who killed her customer and goes all over the world to find out, I always hear people say "gripping story" but in this case it fits, She's a spoiled rich kid who retired from soccer although we don't know why, I've never seen a soccer player in a thriller before, The first move she made is one I've done on the pitch you will get a yellow card though so I know it works.
After that, she's pretty resourceful in using her strengths against a bunch of killers, What I like about her is she makes time to help people, She's a nice person.
The story starts out a little slow for my taste but gets into the action about a third of the way in and never stops after that.
The battle in the jungle had me speed reading to see what happened, I can't say without a spoiler, but it was good, The ending was pretty amazing too, Fast and furious.
If you like women in lead roles, this is a great book, Pia Sabel plays to win,
Until a few weeks ago, she was an international soccer star, But now she's taken the helm of her billionaire father's private security company, and she's playing against a whole new set of opponents: the kind who shoot to kill.
On her first day on the job, Pia's client is assassinated in front of her, There's no time for training, so Pia must trust her instincts and athletic skills to unravel the complicated maze of money laundering and piracy that will take her from Swiss mansions to the jungles of Cameroon.
Her battlehardened employees suspect she's just a spoiled rich girl with a mean corner kick, But Pia's got some unexpected moves of her own, Will they be enough to bring her team through its mission I read a lot of crime novels, One of my favorite authors is John Sandford, and its because his character, Lucas Davenport, is different from most of the other detectives out there.
I picked up The Geneva Decision based on a recommendation and Im glad I did, I ended up liking Pia Sabel, the female lead, for the same reasons I like Lucas shes different, It took me a while to buy into Pia Sabel, but once I did, I found myself liking her,
The pacing was good and the story moved along nicely, although at times I would have liked a few of the secondary characters to have had a little more page time.
Seeley James does a good job of creating the setting and taking the reader to new places, The story starts off in Geneva, but the chase leads the reader to Africa and Vienna also, There are a lot of nice specifics, especially in Geneva, that help transport you there and make you feel more of a part of the story.
His writing style makes for an easy read, and the book isnt riddled with errors like so many books are.
I think James is a writer to keep your eye on, and Im looking forward to the next Pia Sabel book.
Page turner
Kept my interest, Could not put it down, I had to know what happens to Pia the rich bitch footballer Wow! this book captured my imagination quickly and held it.
i stayed up way too late reading this one, Mr. James writes with impact and leaves every chapter hanging without making you feel like he was doing it on purpose.
This one moved forward with more than just shootrun type chase scenesit had a reason for going everywhere it went.
And it was fun. Really fun.
Especially nice to see a woman taking charge without deferring to a man somewhere along the line, This one has two powerful women leading the men and one funny womansidekick who screws up, Fair balance.
Refreshingly new and different, Highly recommended. The Geneva Decision does a lot of things that are different from the runofthemill action thriller, For one thing, its protagonist and dominant personality is a woman shes not a guy with breasts, nor a cartoon ultravixen, nor does she wear Spandex unless shes working out.
She even keeps her clothes on through the entire book, That may be a spoiler, The good guys dont work for some ultrasecret government agency theyre private security contractors, and although wellheeled, they dont have all the resources of the Earth behind them.
The bad guys arent some other ultrasecret global cabal with limitless reach and resources theyre bad, yes, they get around, but theyre human.
The fate of the world doesnt even hang in the balance,
So how does it all work Very nicely, thank you, Geneva is a fast, satisfying read that wont have you thinking “Havent I read this before” after every chapter.
Lets start with Pia Sabel, the aforementioned heroine, Not only is she not token eyecandy, shes also not the standard Special Forces refugee, Shes an athlete a former Olympic soccer player dragooned by her fabulously wealthy
adoptive father into running the family business.
Except for whatever shes picked up from being surrounded by bodyguards for most of her life, shes a rookie at this game.
Shes not even a very good shot, Being an athlete, though, shes fit, can run like hell, can beat the crap out of lesser mortals, and has a very casual attitude toward her own mortality.
Yes, she has the requisite Painful Past, but it doesnt involve alcoholism, gambling, a longlost love, dead children or serial divorces.
If youre an actionthriller fan, you can already see how this kind of protagonist might change up the genre,
Fittingly, Sabel Security is an unusual lead agency for this kind of story, For one thing, its not the standard everybodyunitedagainstthedarkenemy place except for the Dastardly Enemy Mole or Butthead PoliticalWeasel Boss, natch.
This firm came undone upon Our Heroines ascension to the CEOs chair, with mass resignations and much political backbiting, This, too, is a refreshing change it sounds like reality,
The story has twists and turns that flow organically, and a series of action setpieces that are realistically messy and often inconclusive again, just like in life.
In fact, both good and bad guys miss their shots more often than hit, another touch of reality in a genre in which the heroes regularly pull off amazing feats of marksmanship against moving targets in the dark while riding upside down on cropdusters.
The dialog is naturalistic and believable, No one can accuse James of picking overused settings if youre struggling to find a novel set in Cameroon to complete your aroundtheworldmysteries challenge, this is your book.
Not only are the locations fresh, but the author makes good use of fairly esoteric parts of those locales, such as Genevas water system !.
As you can tell, I like this book, So what happened to the fifth star
Its gone not for any one big reason, but a collection of little ones.
Pia is a dear and I enjoyed my time with her, but shes such a Girl Scout, and the third or fourth time this quality puts her people at deadly risk I just wanted to slap her.
Also, I kept waiting to see her dark side, .
While the bad guys are described early and economically, Pias accomplices arent for instance, it took quite a while before I realized Pias chief lieutenant and minder is black it became a plot point, leaving me wondering what Id missed.
For that matter, I still dont know what Pia herself looks like, I imagined a Brandi Chastain/Hope Solo mashup, which worked well enough for me, As befits a spoiled rich girl something she gets called at least a hundred times during the story Pia is stubborn and reckless and doesnt take coaching well, which made me wonder a how she managed to get on an Olympic anything team, and b how she expects to keep the rest of her employees from walking out.
Finally, Im truly on the fence about using as the author does in places textembedded links to online photo galleries instead of baking place descriptions into the narrative.
On one hand, it does give the reader a vivid picture of the setting, but on the other hand, I can think of many reasons why my Kindle might not be connected to the Internet, and what happens with the printed book
Like I said, these are minor gripes, and your mileage may vary.
The Geneva Decision is a refreshing departure from the increasingly calcified norms of actionthriller fiction, a solid read with a unique protagonist, an array of engaging supporting characters, and a plot that keeps you hooked.
Author James handling of so many difficulttonail elements while also breaking multiple conventions is remarkable for a debut novelist many veterans dont always manage it Im looking at you, Patterson.
So if youre on the prowl for a fresh take on the actionthriller genre, youre suffering from testosterone overload from too much Reacher, or you just want to see girls kick butt, give The Geneva Decision a try.
You wont be sorry. The Geneva Decision was AWESOME! Seeley James is an incredible author! I was sitting at the edge of my seat reading this book and I couldn't put it down! I loved all the twists and turns.
I hope there are more books about Pia Sabel, I would love to know what other events life has in store for her, A very readable book. Pia Sabel is a kickass yet vulnerable female exOlympic footballer turned detective, and despite being mega rich, the author succeeds in making Pia an easy character to relate to.
The story races along at a good clip, jumping destinations like a Bond film, with plenty of the type of details that make it easy to visualise the setttings.
Dialogue between the cast is snappy and believable, and carries the slightly dubious plot along even when it gets a bit far fetched.
I did find myself skipping some of the action sequences, which were a bit too technicalheavy for my taste, but the book rounds off nicely, with a clean solution and plenty of hooks for the follow ups.
I will certainly read the next one,
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