Rating:  ☆☆1/2

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Author:   Stephanie Meyer

Genre:  Fiction, Romance, Thriller

512 pages, published November 8, 2016

Reading Format:  Audio Book

Summary

The Chemist by Stephenie Meyer of Twilight fame is an action/adventure tale that tells the story of Alex, an ex CIA agent and torturer specializing in chemical cocktails to make her subjects talk, who is on the run from her former employers who must take one more case to clear her name and save her life.  Along the way, Alex hooks up with Daniel, a loveable school teacher, and his brother Kevin, a former Black Ops agent.  Intrigue and a love story ensue.  

Quotes

“I’ve never been drawn to someone the way I am to you, and I have been from the very first moment I met you. It’s like the difference between…between reading about gravity and then falling for the first time.”

 

“She earched for something to say, something that would make the world a little less dark and scary for him.  “Pop-Tart?” she offered.”

 

“Sometimes you cling to a mistake simply because it took so long to make.”

My Take

The Chemist is a popcorn thriller/action book. Not great literature, but readable enough (although the torture scenes are too drawn out and graphic for my taste).  The Twilight series was such a page-turning guilty pleasure for me that I felt compelled to check out Meyer’s other two books:  The Host and The Chemist.  Unfortunately, The Chemist is the weakest link.  Clocking in at 512 pages, your time is better spent elsewhere.