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A review by billymac1962
Desert Places by Blake Crouch
4.0
Pretty crazy and violent tale about a novelist who receives a letter informing him that he has a body buried on his property, with his blood on it and his missing paring knife is the murder weapon.
Aaaaand we're off!
Blake Crouch can sure write a thriller. I was glued to the pages of his Pines series, and after that I was sure I'd read more of him and here I am at his first novel.
For a first novel this is impressive stuff. While most people probably wouldn't have bought into Andrew's way of doing things, it's great fun to just sit back (with fingers clenched) and watch things play out. The novel ended surprisingly for me because this happened at around 75% of my Kindle edition...the rest of the chapters were previews of his subsequent books.
Desert Places read like gangbusters for the most part. I did find at times that his descriptive was clunky and it slowed me down somewhat, but this may have just been me. Otherwise, for the final 25% or so I was burning through the pages. Just like I did with Pines.
Another score. Good enough to say I'll likely read the sequel, but not for a while. I'm too curious about Run and Abandon, and of course his latest, Dark Matter, which people are calling his best work.
In a reading slump? Give Crouch a shot.
Aaaaand we're off!
Blake Crouch can sure write a thriller. I was glued to the pages of his Pines series, and after that I was sure I'd read more of him and here I am at his first novel.
For a first novel this is impressive stuff. While most people probably wouldn't have bought into Andrew's way of doing things, it's great fun to just sit back (with fingers clenched) and watch things play out. The novel ended surprisingly for me because this happened at around 75% of my Kindle edition...the rest of the chapters were previews of his subsequent books.
Desert Places read like gangbusters for the most part. I did find at times that his descriptive was clunky and it slowed me down somewhat, but this may have just been me. Otherwise, for the final 25% or so I was burning through the pages. Just like I did with Pines.
Another score. Good enough to say I'll likely read the sequel, but not for a while. I'm too curious about Run and Abandon, and of course his latest, Dark Matter, which people are calling his best work.
In a reading slump? Give Crouch a shot.