Remorseless: A Rex Dalton Thriller

I've recently finished reading this, and as my first Rex Dalton thriller, it's certainly an interesting read. This novel is 15 books deep into the series, so I definitely appreciate the character list given at the start of the copy. The characters were pretty diverse and fun to read about, plus there were a lot of statistics and information about the weaponry and the issue addressed. Also, the plot's second half was quite surprising - definitely didn't expect the Russian's part in the story. But for me there were a lot of problems which brought down the points.

Okay. I did like the statistics and information given, but as I read on the information seemed more and more excessive. At one point I saw a paragraph explaining Gen Z's - is that really relevant or necessary? It just made the narrative uninteresting. And on the topic of boredom, the first 60% was really just surveilling and catching the small fries, which made it rather repetitive.

Another problem was the plot holes/lack of elaboration. There were some parts that I thought required more explaining, like I remember there were supposed to be 3 siblings all raised to be Russian spies? The book only mentioned 2 and honestly the raising Russian kids as spies was such a long term investment there must be other better ways to go about this. Besides, Rex Dalton et al. made it look so easy defeating the enemy but as the enemy is a billionaire who is hosting a presidential candidate, there would definitely be more guards perhaps standing outside the doors and patrolling the grounds so the sneaking in should be much harder. There would definitely be a more advanced security system as well, and really Rex's raids were halved in difficulty level because his hackers could basically hack everything, which was so convenient and made the whole plot seem easy.

The premise was easy and had promise, but I feel like there were so many plot problems it was less fun to read, hence the three stars.

Note: I voluntarily wrote this honest review after receiving an ARC.