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<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1849.Wild_Fire?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="Wild Fire" border="0" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/photo.goodreads.com/books/1158959961m/1849.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1849.Wild_Fire?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">Wild Fire</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1238.Nelson_DeMille">Nelson DeMille</a><br/><br/>
  <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11127515?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a>
  rating: 3 of 5 stars<br/>This was my first Nelson DeMille book and I thought was OK.  This was a quick read and probably good for the beach or a flight.  It started out sort of rough for me but it got better as the plot developed and I got to know the characters.  I had two main problems with the book that kept me from rating it higher.  First, I felt DeMille was trying too hard to make the main character, John Corey, appear as a tough, hardened, macho guy. It came across as forced and I felt it could be dialed down a bit or shown through subtle actions.  This continued throughout the book but I learned to ignore most of it as I read.  
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<br/>The second problem I had was the author's gratuitous description of sex scenes and sexual references.  This happened mostly in the beginning of the book and, since I wasn't familiar with the author's work, I wasn't sure if I was reading a harlequin romance of some type for men.  Since most of the graphic sex was confined to the beginning of the story I was able to forget about it as the plot unfolded.
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<br/>Overall I thought the plot was good if not a little simplistic.  Tom Clancy or Robert Ludlum would have added some more detail, a couple of twists, and some complexity to the plot. Again, I think this would make a good quick summer read and I will probably check out at least one more Nelson DeMille novel. 
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This was my first Nelson DeMille book and I thought was OK. This was a quick read and probably good for the beach or a flight. It started out sort of rough for me but it got better as the plot developed and I got to know the characters. I had two main problems with the book that kept me from rating it higher. First, I felt DeMille was trying too hard to make the main character, John Corey, appear as a tough, hardened, macho guy. It came across as forced and I felt it could be dialed down a bit or shown through subtle actions. This continued throughout the book but I learned to ignore most of it as I read.

The second problem I had was the author's gratuitous description of sex scenes and sexual references. This happened mostly in the beginning of the book and, since I wasn't familiar with the author's work, I wasn't sure if I was reading a harlequin romance of some type for men. Since most of the graphic sex was confined to the beginning of the story I was able to forget abo...more

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