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A review by thecaffeinatedreader
Dead Man's Blues by Ray Celestin
5.0
I was scared when I saw this book was longer than the first and I remembered the pacing issue I had with it at times.
Thank god/powers that be/the universe, that I had nothing to worry about.
I also was a bit timid, wondering if this was going to be very formulaic in the end, and of course, there should be something consistent in mysteries/crime, but I pretty much had nothing to worry about. I would say this work was the perfecting of his first book in this quartet and I CANNOT wait to read the third one now.
I was on the edge of my seat the last 75 pages or so, and I was actually super mad and was going to give a piece of my mind over something that crushed my soul that happened in the book [no spoilers so you'll have to read and guess what part it was] but he just did right by the readers and everything fell into place and instead of getting mad I was doing some odd jazz hands because I was too tired to let out a fangirl squeal.
I know this is super incoherent but, if you liked The Axeman's Jazz, you'll LOVE Dead Man's Blues.
There's more Ida and a little less Michael, still have Louis Armstrong but with the addition of freakin' Al Capone.
Celestin is proving to be a fierce writer in this genre and I am already impatient to read the Mobster's Lament.
Thank god/powers that be/the universe, that I had nothing to worry about.
I also was a bit timid, wondering if this was going to be very formulaic in the end, and of course, there should be something consistent in mysteries/crime, but I pretty much had nothing to worry about. I would say this work was the perfecting of his first book in this quartet and I CANNOT wait to read the third one now.
I was on the edge of my seat the last 75 pages or so, and I was actually super mad and was going to give a piece of my mind over something that crushed my soul that happened in the book [no spoilers so you'll have to read and guess what part it was] but he just did right by the readers and everything fell into place and instead of getting mad I was doing some odd jazz hands because I was too tired to let out a fangirl squeal.
I know this is super incoherent but, if you liked The Axeman's Jazz, you'll LOVE Dead Man's Blues.
There's more Ida and a little less Michael, still have Louis Armstrong but with the addition of freakin' Al Capone.
Celestin is proving to be a fierce writer in this genre and I am already impatient to read the Mobster's Lament.