What starts out as a routine case quickly spins out of control
leaving Detective Jack Maguire in the middle of the biggest conspiracy
of all time. All that’s been done before in other books but what I like
is that the lead character is black. He’s not a walking stereotype but
a real 3-D person with the kinds of problems that all men have and that
works to the book’s favor.
The problem is how do I give an in depth review
what is essentially only the first chapter of 40 pages of a longer
story? What kind of accident gave Jack his powers? How long has he had
his powers? What happened to his father to make him try to hard? What
is the conspiracy about that we start to learn of?
The book kind of starts with no back story and then just stops
with no real ending. I know that this is the first of at least 3
volumes and I wish that the author had waited until he had the 120 or so
pages finished to release all at one time as I felt I came into a movie
5 minutes after it started and walked out after 30 and tried to write a
review. I would like to know what’s going to happen next but this is a
tough book for me to recommend.
Rebetiko
First off, I want you to click on this link
and listen as you read. As I may have mentioned before, I am a student
and lover of history. Every continent in every time period has
fascinating stories just waiting to be
told. Rebetiko by David Prudhomme has been referred to as his
masterpiece and I wish I could agree. I wanted to enjoy this book. I
really did but the experience felt like trying to run through a swamp.
I would slog and slog and then hit a patch where the author really
nailed it and I was off and running for a little bit until I again had
to wade through the next slow patch.