There was serious lack of character development, even with all the difficulties faced throughout the book. It felt like all the problems were solved too quickly without the ‘ good guys‘ suffering anything significant. Throwing around a bunch of buzzwords doesn’t make it believable. Things happened too easily, and I don’t care how brilliant you are in the profession, you still have to hit some walls to make it more realistic to the reader. It was a case of ‘this is how it is, I don’t know how to really explain this but I’m just going to go with it anyway’. The writing was a little lazy and there was little research included to really explain the hacker world. This book is basically about cyber warfare and who can hack who the best to extract the most crucial information from the enemy. The plot was there but there was no effort to go into detail about the hacking world and what it really involves. The Fox is based on the stories of British hackers Gary McKinnon and Lauri Love and centres around an 18 year old schoolboy with Asperger’s Syndrome who is able to penetrate intricate firewalls to access the secrets at the highest level of foreign governments and other major organisations. All opinions and views are my own.īook review: The Fox by Frederick Forsyth #bookreview #frederickforsyth #mysterybooks #espionagebooks #booktwt #bookaddict #booktwitter Tweet When taking on a representation of some sort, you need to really be focused on it and this book did nothing of that sort.ĭISCLAIMER: This review could contain possible spoilers based on my opinions. While the representation of a character in this book hits home because I want to say, ‘ I understand him‘ – the representation of the circumstances around him didn’t hit the mark for me. Luckily, if you look around long enough, you’d find what you’re looking for. This includes reading books with representation of life and people that usually aren’t popular for plot and character choices. I really try and read as diversely as possible.

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