Reviews for the Christmas Train by David Baldacci
This particular author was recommended to me by my dad, and commonly we love a lot of the same books so I was excited. Yet, David Baldacci writes a lot of criminal offence drama which isn't really my genre and so I looked through his books and establish something more than up my aisle to give him a off-white hazard and I found The Christmas Railroad train. This one is more than contemporary fiction with romance and warm fuzzy holiday feelings which is TOTALLY my kind of book. Unfortunately, this just wasn't my book. I wasn't expecting Unfortunately, this just wasn't my book. I wasn't expecting a literary masterpiece. I was expecting a feel skillful, entertaining Christmas story, and I was expecting to at to the lowest degree savour it, only this book failed on all of those fronts. For starters, it wasn't just cliche, but painfully so. The characters were all pretty deadening, the plot was a complete disaster, and even the actual writing was astoundingly lackluster. Characters are e'er my biggest attraction to a story. Good characters tin get me through a bad story whatsoever mean solar day, but in that location were none here, and it wasn't that Baldacci was extremely good at writing bad characters, the characters wanted to be liked, but they simply weren't very likable. First, at that place'south Tom. He's the hero of the story, and I guess he'due south supposed to be some sort of manly human being, and he lost the love of his life so you desire to empathize with him, but the homo is just an ass. Within the offset four pages he very proudly talks about punching a TSA agent, his inner monologue is pretty derogatory towards everybody effectually him, and of form he'south likewise arrogant. Then there'south the women in his life: Eleanor, who is supposed to be intelligent and sophisticated, is the woman he lost. She'due south supposed to exist his "soul mate" and all the same, when he asks why she left, this logical and rational woman responds with the cliche irrational girl response of "if y'all don't know then you'll never understand." Ugh. Just of course, Tom can't be single and pining all these years so he also has Leila in his life. And of course, she's the typical cookie-cutter girl with no substance who thinks she tin get everything she wants through sex. Flirt with the right people, cast a wink in the right direction and men merely fall at her feet. And then hither's our main cast of characters, who are supported by: the big shot hollywood director, the doting banana, the young dear couple, the sassy religious black lady, the preacher, and the harmless old lady who seems to be more than she appears. Cookie cutters are okay sometimes, only you've got to give them a petty life. You need to make them your own, not merely toss them in and telephone call it a day. Moving on to the story! Tom, after gleefully punching a TSA agent is no longer allowed to fly. And, taking this as a "divine sign," he decides to take the railroad train for Christmas so he tin "find himself" just like his famous writer antecedent, Mark Twain. And who should be on this train but Eleanor!? She'south at present playing the pet writer to a large shot Hollywood director and they're looking to write a story about a train. As all big shot Hollywood directors practice. Well isn't this just perfect? He tin can team up with Eleanor and they can get the stories of all our merry misfit railroad train riders. Now, to add a little spice to our story there's besides a mysterious thief robbing all of our passengers when they leave their rooms unattended. Even our poor retired preacher doesn't escape our thief. And the only passenger who seems to escape is our suspicious old lady. Then at present Tom wants to investigate this as well considering that's what all good journalist do. And of course, as everything is spiraling out of control, an avalanche hits the railroad train and everyone remembers what'due south really important nigh Christmas. Like I said before, I was expecting this sort of Hallmark Holiday Special and so I didn't mind information technology also much until THIS. (view spoiler)[This whole train ride was orchestrated by the big time director who secretly knew that Eleanor was all the same in love with Tom so he arranged everything! Our young beloved couple, they're paid actors! Leila is a skilful friend of his and so she's all on board to STEP Bated for this love story to play out. And our suspected thief, the old lady, is actually an undercover cop who's catching the real thief: the preacher.Gag And to add insult to injury, Tom confesses his undying love to Eleanor and kisses her while he'due south all the same with Leila. He's committed the ultimate betrayal of adulterous. But no no, our leading man tin can't be an asshole. However do nosotros fix this? Well he goes to break things off with Leila and finds out that SHE'S BEEN Adulterous ON HIM TOO! So at present Tom is magically absolved of all wrongdoing and Leila is the bitch. But that's okay, no one is supposed to like her anyways. (hide spoiler)] Eek! Finally, there's the actual writing style. This story had a serious problem with post-obit the gilt rule of "show, don't tell." So this was just a behemothic data dump instead of using the narrative to tell the story. This was concluding blast in the coffin that turned The Christmas Train into a trainwreck. Had this been a random book that I'd picked upwards I probably wouldn't Baldacci a second chance, simply because information technology'south my dad I might give him the benefit of the doubt and effort finding another story. Maybe. One twenty-four hours. Definitely going to need a palette cleanser though. Then, if y'all happen to be looking for a experience good Christmas romance, I would recommend looking elsewhere because you lot won't detect it hither. 
Source: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/126185.The_Christmas_Train
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