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msmiz95's review against another edition
3.0
3.5 - Just read this for the first time through the Loose re-release. I had a good time with this book!
kaje_harper's review
5.0
This was a fast-paced action-filled story about Stefan, an author of boys' adventure stories, who returns to his Texas home town for his foster brother Tommy's funeral. But when he gets there the house is full of law enforcement, everyone is tense and uncommunicative, the dead man's wife is missing, and there is a secret message from Tommy waiting for him to decipher. Tommy's death may not have been an accident. In a situation full of family history, politics, money, drugs, and old hurt feelings and secrets, Stefan can't know who to trust, or what he needs to do.
There are nice moments of humor, especially when Stefan edits his book and fantasizes about leaving the path of wholesomeness and writing what his two teenage MCs are really up to. There are emotions that catch the throat, as Stefan encounters the closeted deputy he still carries a torch for. And an action plot that held surprises for me, up to the end. This finishes with the beginning of an HFN, satisfying enough and not a cliffhanger. I enjoyed the writing style, the fast flow of the mystery, and the characters.
There are nice moments of humor, especially when Stefan edits his book and fantasizes about leaving the path of wholesomeness and writing what his two teenage MCs are really up to. There are emotions that catch the throat, as Stefan encounters the closeted deputy he still carries a torch for. And an action plot that held surprises for me, up to the end. This finishes with the beginning of an HFN, satisfying enough and not a cliffhanger. I enjoyed the writing style, the fast flow of the mystery, and the characters.
msmiz95's review
3.0
3.5 - Just read this for the first time through the Loose re-release. I had a good time with this book!
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