I usually start with the positive but for this exception I will start with the negative. I really hated how none of these characters was developed, it was almost like they were thrown together in a puzzle that did not fit. None of their personalities shined through, therefore I was not invested w...
This book has been compared to the movie "Crash", which I watched and really enjoyed. Knowing this took some of the enjoyment away for me, I knew there would be multiple stories interwoven, I also knew the end. The main character would end up dead, after all this book is based on the real life mu...
The kidnapping of a young child by a couple of limited intelligence is not unknown in our times. It is certainly a valid theme for a novel, and here it is treated with understanding and perception. The reader is not presented at the outset with a dastardly villain pursued by a policeman with ...
His right cheek was free of band-aids now and lined with a meaty white scar. There was still a bit of pink where the wound hadn’t completely healed, but he couldn’t make himself wait any longer. He’d just been sitting around thinking about it for days. He knew more about m...
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The rain that was threatening to come down all day yesterday is finally splashing against the asphalt and concrete which line the floor of the city. Something about the smell of rain always makes him feel nostalgic for an earlier, more innocent time in his life. Never more so than now, with every...
He tilts the bottom of his tumbler toward the ceiling, washing the last of the whiskey and water and icemelt down his throat. A half-melted ice cube falls into his mouth as well – clattering against mercury-filled molars – but after swallowing the liquid, he spits it back into the glass and sets ...