This is my review of I am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes. This is an excellent book and I highly recommended it. My wife also thinks it’s excellent and she’s the one who recommended it to me. We don’t have the same taste of books, so it’s a surprise, or a rare event I would say, that we both appreciate the same book. If you are looking for some summer reading, you won’t be disappointed with this book.
If you read the back of the dust jacket, you might think that the book is all over the place and it’s not for you. And in a sense, it is all over the place. But it was done on purpose. Usually that’s a recipe for disaster, except in this case. All the crazy events eventually ties up. The story takes you a on a wild ride. There’s two part to the story, which is the reason behind why this is a big book. The book combines both a murder mystery and a terrorist plot to unleash a cataclysm on America. The book takes into a series of strange events. The main character, “Pilgrim”, is a great character. He’s smart and insightful.
There’s a sequel to the book coming out next year, The Year of the Locust, which is coming out sometime next year. I also read some stuff about a movie studio picking the rights to the book/character. So this should be interesting but I don’t know how this story will hold up on the big screen. However Hollywood did make an excellent movie about a baseball stat book, Michael Lewis’ Moneyball. So I’m sure they can figure out something. Terry Hayes is a Hollywood guy and his background is in movie scripts, so maybe he can work his magic. And congrats to Mr. Hayes on his first novel. It must be very different from going to movie scripts to a very long novel.
