The Athena Project Book Reviews

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Exciting!. I really enjoyed this book. It is rare to find a thriller where women are the operatives involved in various dangerous situations. Situations that they have to use their wits to get out of alive. No big,strong man has to come to their rescue. I love it!

Great. I loved the book Brad Thor's descriptions of everything were perfect and gave me a clear picture of everything. On top of that the plot was great and I like how it tied in characters from previous books. 

Athena Project. Cliched plot, thin characters, absurd dialog. A waste of time and money.

Another good book from Brad.. Not great but good.

Least favorite. I've read the Brad Thor series and this is by far the worse. The absence of Havareths' main character make this book unappealing to say the least. The use of multiple female ops characters just doesn't have the same appeal. Almost seems like I'm reading another authors attempt of copying a Thor plot and dismantling it.

The Athena project. Very good book. Not too hard to read and kept me interested. Anoth fine book from brad Thor

Weak Cheeeez. I have read several of Brad Thor's novels, and usually enjoyed them. However, if this had been the first work of his I'd ever read, it would have been the last. This was flat, uninteresting, undeveloped and basically hack work. Too bad because like he himself said, these characters deserved their own book. Well he gave it to them...I guess.

Athena Project. I, too, have read all of Brad Thor's novels and have been pleased with them, until now. This book is just terrible. The plot is juvenile and far from credible. It plays on the fact that male readers probably enjoy female heroes, but four women, being catty and joking like teenage girls is a bit much. This book enforces my belief that popular authors like Brad Thor and Vince Flynn (American Assassin) have succumbed to the demands of the publishers to pump out as much as they can to capitalize on the expanded gross profit margins brought about by the ebook craze. Save your money and let this one pass.

All of.. I have enjoyed all of Thor’s books. Looking forward to his next novel. When will it be out?

Sufficient. Really good storyline. Well put together and the side story was a good twist I wasn’t expecting. The main story was a little stagnant and the playful banter between the women was often annoying and not as serious as I would have liked given the exclusivity of the Athena Team. Side story was good, but kind of pointless to add in there. I would have liked more from the main storyline versus story B, but the book overall kept me intrigued! Not great, but it definitely was a good one and it was very interesting!

Horrible!. I have read all of Brad Thor's novels and loved them...except this one! Ridiculous female dialogue, the plot had more holes in it than Bonnie and Clyde, and the endless female stereotypes were seemingly created in the hormonally-charged mind of an eleven year old boy. The major problem beyond this clunker of a novel is that Thor has warned (I mean promised) us that there will be more Athena Project novels to come! This threat (I mean promise) has already come to fruition with the Athena Project Barbie Dolls showing up in his latest novel, Black List! Thankfully, Scott Harvath is the main character and Black List ends up being a page-turner. Brad, sometimes you just have to cut your losses and admit you have made a mistake. You simply are incapable of writing about women without emphasizing the superficial. You don't want to become known as the Russ Meyer of spy novels, do you??? Hey, we all have our faults, but most people don't write an entire novel pointing them out. Stick with Scott Harvath and your legions of fans will stick with you!

Ok book. That's it, just an ok book. I've read all of Brad Thor's books and I'd rank this one at the bottom of his works. The fact that the shooters here were a team of women didn't bother me though I was hoping for more of Scott Harvath. Just seemed like a cookie cutter type of book. Interesting and boring at the same time. If you like Brad Thor's books you'll like this one but at the end you'll wish there was more to it.

Really?. I too have been avid reader of Mr. Thor and, like everyone else it seems, when he publishes, I buy. Fortunately, with these e-books, I was able to not only read a sample but reviews as well. This was, in my opinion, money well spent. From beginning to end, Mr. Thor's story telling is as it's always been...exceptional. For the uniformed, a team of "operators" comprised of women may seem far-fetched but, I can assure you the actions and antics portrayed in this novel are close enough to rate "damned close" in the fact based fiction category. Thanks and I'll be looking for the next one!

Not his best work. This is not his best work. It spends a great number of words with the "chick" thing. It does not enhance the character or plot development at all. The last thing I want to do is read the characters talk about their sex lives. In short there is a fuzzy story line built around female special forces.

Fast read. Great follow up to the series. I highly recommend this book to fans of Thor.

Loved it !!!!. A great extension of the Scot Horvath books. Lots of available plot twists so I can't wait for the next book to come out.

Not his best. I usually love all Brad Thor's books, but I didn't like this one very much. It felt very rushed to completion and the story wasn't nearly as captivating as so e of his others. Not sure if I like Athena teams superwoman save the day plots. If you want something fantastic, captivating, as well as a little more realistic, read the Patriot.

The Athena Project. Consistent Brad Thor entertainment

Hooked from page 1. Fantastic story. Love the camaraderie between the characters. Just an overall awesome book!

Athena Project. Fast and furious action with a great plot. Couldn't put it down!

Don't bother. This has to be one of Thor's worst. He portrays his "all woman" covert team as ditsy and incapable of doing an assignment without stupid sexually themed dialogue. I think the author should stick to male operatives. At least he depicts them as professional and intelligent.

Lousy. What a disappointment. Shallow, trite......etc. etc. Let's hope he isn't going the way of Patterson; just churn 'em out to make a buck.

Great team. Awesome read

2nd Rate. Very disappointing Thor effort. Love the concept but the book itself was not up to my expectations of Brad Thor.

The Athena Project. Maybe Brad Thor's best yet! I loved it!!! I'm sad that I'm finished and have to wait so long for the next one

Sexy, Funny, and Fast Paced. The Athena group are hilarious and their personalities shine as they take on the various dangerous missions that are suited for their style of talent. Great, fast, easy read!

Ughhh. It was ok. Keeps your attention but parts were veeeeerry cliche and I felt I could have written half of it. Poor structure.

Great book. Worth the money!

Not the best. I am a fan of Brad Thor's books until this one. It left a lot to be desired with a weak story line with less depth than his previous works. Hopefully this is just an anomaly and not a sign that the magic is over. I liked the premise, a Delta group comprised entirely of women but they need more development, again more depth. Here's to hoping the next one will give us just that!

The Athena Project. Disappointing at best.

The Athena Project. Can't wait de the next one....! Every bit as good as Scott or Mitch Rapp

OK but for TOO many pages of contrived female prattle. Basic plot, OK. But stuffing the book with pages of mindless contrived female prattle really took this book way down in my opinion. Not very good.

Not his best work. Very loose plot, corny dialogues, no main line of focus. Gave up halfway. It’s 2.99 for a reason.

Brad Thor.... Brad Thor is my cousin!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Interesting but needed work. The Athena Project is a story of a team of all-female operatives of the counter-terrorism team, Delta Force, who find themselves in the midst of a mission much larger than they every expected. When twenty Americans are killed in a terrorist attack in Rome, Athena Project operatives, Gretchen Casey, Julie Ericsson, Megan Rhodes, and Alex Cooper are tasked with capturing a Venetian arms dealer responsible for providing the explosives from his home. But following the arm’s dealer’s interrogation, they are tasked to check out a secret bunker once used by the Nazi’s during WWII as a scientific research center. They find the gruesome remains of inhumane experiments from the 1940′s but all the equipment and technology has been removed…recently. Now, propelled on a mission to discover the culprits behind the clearing of the bunker and the whereabouts of the supposed technology that once laid inside. Simultaneously, there is a storyline taking place in Colorado where a foreign spy is close to penetrating the mysterious secret the U.S. government has hidden beneath Denver International Airport, but she doesn’t realize that she is being played by the man she thought she was seducing. I actually finished the book back in early January, but I had a hard time figuring out what about the book that bothered me. I considered it an entertaining read, but something was making it feel eh to me for lack of a better word. That was until I saw an episode of Chuck (“Chuck versus the C.A.T. Squad”) that I immediately realized what it was that was disappointing. In The Athena Project, as in the Chuck episode, the four girls are all stunning beauties who are skilled weapons experts and tactical killing machines. They both use their feminine wiles to infiltrate and get close to their targets and then their cold-hearted training to carry out their mission; however, in The Athena Project there was a lack of humanity to the characters. When I say humanity, I don’t mean compassion, but more that they are so beautiful and so great at what they do that they seemed invincible. More like a superhero than a human spy with vulnerabilities and character flaws. In addition, I felt there was a lack of character development to the main cast of characters that made the four operatives interchangeable. I found myself many times pausing to remember the backstory of the character I was following and not being able to pinpoint which one it was. There was so little to separate them from one another that it was as if they were one person. Again, even in the single episode of Chuck the four women were distinctly different from one another. Each had their own issues, their own pasts and their own problems. Why is it that I felt more connected with four characters in a single hour of TV than I did with four protagonists over an entire novel? Somethings not right with that situation. Other issues I had with the novel involved the pacing and the seeming superlative secondary story arcs. Throughout the novel, the story seemed to be building to a climactic and epic ending; however, the ending was rather predictable and almost boring. There were parts in the middle of the book that had me on my seat more than the ending. Also, the entire story in Denver was interesting but there was no resolution as to why it existed in the first place. The dynamic between the two spies (one American, one Russian) both tasked with getting close to the other was intriguing, but the story arc was almost thrown away with a quick conclusion, and when it was done, I found myself wondering what was the point. This was the first Brad Thor novel I’ve read, and I know there is a number of books around a character who had a cameo in this novel, Scot Harvath, but as a first time reader. I find myself wondering if I want to try another one of his books. Where this novel falls short with protagonists that are more caricatures of female spies and the plot is weak and underdeveloped perhaps his other books stand out as resouding successes in a genre that is greatly entertaining. I apologize if this review is a bit negative. I generally like to stay constructive, but I’m afraid I may have been too harsh on Brad Thor’s recent work. It takes a lot to write a novel and I applaud his effort but I feel this needed a better editor to point out those substantive issues before publication. Let’s hope my next read of a Brad Thor novel is a more positive one. Rating: C As a last note, this novel is probably a perfect in-flight read. It would be a great one to pick up at the airport and read as you wait for your flight to take off. It’s fast paced, entertaining for what it is and brainless enough to not exhaust you while you travel.

Awesome as the others.. Just like the rest action from start to finish. I look forward to the next installment.

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Amazing. This book is great. A must read Brad Thor is a amazing writter. This book isn't amazing it's hamazing. :)

Athena Project. Great book. As always, a superb fast paced thriller. Just fantastic. A must for avid thriller readers.

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