Book Review of The Blood Drama
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Publisher: White Wiskers Press (June 15,
2013)
Category: Mystery/Thriller/Suspense, Crime
Thriller
Tour Date: Mid May- Mid June, 2013
Available in: Print & eBook, 242
pages
Blurb
:
Everyone has a bad day. Graduate student Ian Nash
has lost his girlfriend in addition to being dropped from a Ph.D. program in
theatre at a Southern California university. When he stops at a local coffee
shop in the lobby of a bank to apply for a job, the proverbial organic matter hits
the fan. A gang of four robs the bank, and things get bloody. Ian is taken
hostage by the robbers when the police show up. Now he has to save his life.
FBI Special Agent Aleece Medina's analysis of the
bloody bank heist drives her into the pursuit of a robbery gang headed by two
women. She doesn't anticipate how this robbery will pit her against both the
bandits and the male higher-ups in the FBI while the media heats up during a
giant manhunt.
The robbers are about to kill Ian, and all he has at
hand is his knowledge of the stage.
About the
Author:
Christopher
Meeks first published short fiction in a number of literary journals, and
the stories are available in two collections, The Middle-Aged Man and the
Sea and Months and Seasons. Recently, he's focused on
novels. The Brightest Moon of the Century is a story of a man
who yearns for love and success, covering over thirty years-a tale that Marc
Schuster of Small Press Reviewsdescribes as "a great and truly humane
novel in the tradition of Charles Dickens and John Irving." His last
novel, Love At Absolute Zero, is about a physicist who uses the tools of
science to find his soul mate-and he has just three days. Critic Grady Harp
calls the book "a gift." The new novel, Blood
Drama, has him edge into a thriller. Meeks also runs White Whisker Books
and publishes four authors.
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This
was a quirky book. I felt dragged along
on the adventure, a slightly off-kilter but enjoyable ride. Nash is a whiner who needs to grow up, and
during the course of this adventure he does.
His whole life is upended and he is mad at everyone because it is their
fault that things are not following his plan… which I’m not even sure he knows
what it is. He is one of those perpetual
students who just doesn’t want to grow up because they enjoy being a child.
Then he
is taken hostage during a bank robbery and FBI Special Agent
Aleece Medina enters his life in her brash no nonsense way. Aleece isn’t sure what to do with Nash. His life is in danger, he needs protecting,
she’s attracted to him and annoyed with him in the same instance. Her zest for life may be just the thing Nash
needs to get his act together… if they survive.
I’m not sure what I was expecting when I started
reading this book, but this book is in a class by itself. The heroes are deeply flawed. The villains, with one glaring exception, are
really not all that bad… in fact at least one or more are motivated by
honorable intentions. The author knows
just how to turn a phrase to make you take a second look at a situation you
thought you understood, only to find that perhaps it’s not what you thought at
first, or even second, glance.
I give this book 4.5 out of 5 clouds.
Come back tomorrow for our interview with Christopher Meeks.
This
product or book may have been distributed for review; this in no way affects my
opinions or reviews.
I'm so glad you enjoyed Blood Drama as much as I did. This is the third book of Christopher's that I have read and they all have quirky characters, which I love.
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