The action is back after taking a book off. This takes it back to the way it should be spies, killing, lies, underhanded operations, and Jason Bourne killing people. Glad to see some plots were left up in the air hopefully they get picked up in the next novel.

Lustbader continues to aid in the destruction of the Bourne series with another installment of drivel and helps to further alienate what Ludlum set down as his legacy. I remain baffled how Ludlum’s estate could permit these novels to keep churning out with the great author of espionage’s name affixed to the title. This book pushes things further and further away from the Jason Bourne we’ve come to love. Bourne walks around without mention of his family, without ties to anyone in his past. Even h...

Unfortunately the first two-thirds of the book were choppy. The characters bounced around. The last third was much smoother, almost as if it had been written by another person. This book left many loose ends. The characters were not all accounted for at the end of the book and two sub-plots were left up-in-the-air. I have continued to read these as I am fond of the Jason Bourne persona but this method of script writing has grown tiresome.Hopefully there will come a time when I can read one of th...

DNF really should have peeked at previous reviews but I am such a spoiler phobe (in all things, ball games, movies, etc) that I did not, and paid the price for 2 days of mullahs, meaningless govt. people acting important, inane plots, and the worst GD background track (there to enhance the fight scene experience I suppose) Sorry Jason, we're done, don't hate me or puncture my larynx with that screwdriver you found laying around. Court Gentry, aka the Gray Man has taken your spot so you can retir...

This book was a below average descent into money making. After the initial Bourne books proved successful, as often happens, the writing is turned over to a second author to just crank out books with the same characters. What results is something like this. From the start, it became hard just to read and enjoy the book. In the end it proved marginally enjoyable, but I have a problem with the overeager setups of many poor modern writers. They exercise no patience in their writing, and with little...

Van Lustader ruined this series. He has taken a great character and removed so much of what made him interesting. Bourne is now just a one dimensional character that gets put in circumstances for no reason. Why would a guy who lost his family once before abandon them and then act like his kids don’t even exist. The stories are confusing. I’ve tried and tried to like these books but just can’t do it anymore

To me it looks like Van Lustbader gets better into Jason Bourne's world and life with every book he writes. In iteslef this was a good book, nice to read, full of action. I think it is a shame though, that the Bourne character is quite flat and shows no real development. Not in dealing with hor healing from his loss of memory, nor in forming relationships with other people. I hope that will be the case in a futere book (this one had an open ending, again, so I strongly suspect that there will be...

I'm going to do what I'm going to do.ONE HELLUVA RIDE! I feel like I've finished a long journey from Colombia to Paris to Washington, DC to the Middle East. There is so much attention-to-detail in this book, not to mention weapons, dishes, drinks. WOW!"Love thy neighbor" comes to mind when describing the characters. No one is who they pretend to be.I finished reading this book in El Salvador, and then passed it on to a cousin.

I'm really torn over this book. It was an enjoyable read but at some point because of the way the characters kept switching rapidly I was floating for some of the bits. To be fair, I read the 9th book in the series instead of starting from the 1st. But besides that, the book honestly felt like it was written for production of the movie. I wasn't connected to the characters and didn't feel like the writer gave me anything concrete about Bourne to like him. It was a fair effort but I don't think i...

Like the previous book this had a huge cast of characters, many with similar sounding names. The story starts with Jason catching a fleeting glimpse at his former life and trying to make sense of this fragment of memory. At least four different groups are worlds apart and slowly converge towards the end of the book. Revenge, hatred, love, trust, betrayal and vindication all affect the characters in this story in different ways.

I am struggling to find anything positive about Van Lustbader’s ninth installment of his “Jason Bourne” stories. The issues present in the last five books (the lackluster characters; the boring tropes; the lack of understanding of WHO this Bourne is) are back in full force. What makes this story so infuriating is that there is little of value. The story is serpentine with absolutely zero payoff. The players we know are void of any meaningful character development. New arrivals in this story foll...

One of the most discombobulated books I have ever read, and at 75 I have read hundreds if not thousands. The plot: as with most Bourne books is a bit difficult to understand and believe, but the plot of The Bourne Dominion is horrendous. You will be asked to believe that half the nations in the world have organizations that not only know Bourne but are out to kill him (and anyone around him). You will be dispersed to just about every corner of the world with nefarious agents and agencies that ar...

I am a huge Ludlum fan. I have not read any of Van Lustbader's versions before now. All I can say is that he is no Ludlum. With a Ludlum novel - you are gripped from the first sentence. It took about 100 pages before I was really into the story. It's got all the typical spy stuff in it but I never felt the same passion for the story that I usually feel for Ludlum. Having said all of that, by and large, it's a good story, moves fairly smoothly, good character development etc. I just missed the Lu...

Started reading this awful book at a friend's house. I guess this is a zombie Bourne, since Ludlum has passed on. Starts with a Borune assassination of an unknown woman in a ladies room, moves on to mayhem on a beach in Thailand (5 killed?), then a few grisly killings in a Russian prison...Who knows the eventual body count, I won't because I put it back on the shelf.I'm done with Ludlum-Lustbader.

Jason Bourne is tasked with unraveling a mystery, but the problem now is not so much his amnesia, but everyone keeping secrets from him as they manipulate him into helping them.

The Review Can Also Be Found Here: http://thefictionalhangout.blogspot.c..."Bourne's enemies are gathering force. Severus Domna, a secret and ancient cabal, has called forth its members from around the globe, with one objective: to vanquish the last person capable of destroying their bid to de-stabilize the world economy - Jason Bourne."The Jason Bourne novels are something that I’ve been meaning to get to for a long time now. The Bourne Dominion may be the ninth book in the series, but it was t...

While Eric will never reach the heights of Robert Ludlum, he keeps improving in every book he writes. This master piece has tension throughout(has Bourne finally met his match with his best friend tasked to kill him) and ample twists and tales throughout-in its own right the book is a master piece. And the new characters introduced in the book can easily allow this series to continue in perpetuity. No Harry Potter like early termination here.

Non-stop action thrill ride. Many intricate and intersecting plot lines. Van Lustbader leaves you hanging at the end of one thread only to jump to the next story. The plots can be confusing as the characters assume multiple identities. The author takes you on a world-wide tour to Washington, Columbia, Germany and Damascus.The writing could be better though. Such non sequiturs as “How could I love you when we have known each other a matter of days? How could I love you when all I’ve done is lie t...

I'd really like to finish this series, but all the stories are starting to run together. They kill off characters that I think have a basis in the storyline going forward, then introduce more characters just to whack them as well. It's getting hard to get invested with other characters.

I'm a Jason Bourne fan but sadly this isn't a Ludlum. Still...I enjoyed it! Slightly confusing with so many characters that it took me the entire book to work out who was who but Bourne was his usual artful self throughout!