|
|
Content by Cindy Stroud
Commentateur n° : 2,282
Votes Utiles:
15
|
|
|
Reviews Written by
Cindy Stroud (London)
|
Reviewer Rank:
2282 |
Page : 1
|
|
|
|
|
Late Nights on Air
|
de Elizabeth Hay
Édition : Hardcover |
| Availability: Currently unavailable |
|
|
|
|
|
15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
A time, a place, a people beautifully rendered!, Dec 7 2007
This book manages to do something not many can, last one I can remember doing this good a job is "Lonesome Dove" by Larry McMurtry. That is bring into sharp focus the characters and relationships of a time and place in such a way that you truly believe them to be real people, and then take these people and cast them against a wild landscape. The story is as much about the how the characters relate to each other as to how they relate to their environment. In "Lonesome Dove" McMurtry takes a cast of well rendered characters and takes them on a cattle drive from Texas to Montana. "In Late Nights on Air" Hay introduces us to the people who work at a Yellow Knife radio station in the wild and wooly Canadian North. Once I started this book it was impossible to put down! Another book that captures a slice of life in a wild place I recommend is "Across the High Lonesome" I did not think it as strong as this novel but still a worthy read.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Dirty Blonde
|
de Lisa Scottoline
Édition : Hardcover |
| Availability: Currently unavailable |
|
|
|
|
|
the line between private and public?, Mar 15 2006
I have never been a big fan of the American Legal thriller, but mum left me her copy after a visit the other day. I picked it up and was unable to put it back down, finished reading it two days! This is a gritty read that explores the weaknesses of the human character. The lead character is Cate Fante, she has just been appointed as a federal judge, she is young and a looker, but she also has a past that is less than judicial. She has a secrete vice, she likes to pick-up strangers at bars. It is in her best interest that her vice remain unknown to the general public. Alas, though, her first case exposes her tawdry past life and threatens her future as a judge along with her life! Parts of the book elicited the sexual voyeur in me, but then it would turn the sexual tension into disgust. It made me think how we all have things we hide. The conclusion was a bit of reach, and I do not think Cate's motives for her indiscretions are ever really explained, then again maybe they are unexplainable? Overall, though this is a well paced suspense story I can highly recommend! Speaking of suspense, do look for the thriller "Tourist in the Yucatan!"
|
|
|
Page : 1
|
