My Review:
This book is everything in the description. An affable, witty protagonist in an action/adventure story. It had everything going for it except one thing – it was written in first person. I felt there was zero tension in the story because it was written in first person and you knew that the main character was never in any real danger. One quick fix would be to put a hint of the ending conflict at the beginning to make us wonder if the person was going to make it until the end. It’s a good, quick read but lost me with the choice of POV.
Book Blurb:
Action, adventure, suspense, and thriller in one story told with a liberal dose of humor.
Tom’s problems are not unique. His business is failing and his wife has to work too many hours to make ends meet. He is under some rather large financial pressures and wants more from his marriage and his life.
He finds his respite in the air as a private pilot. Unfortunately for Tom, he is behind on payments for his plane and is forced to take odd jobs from a local crime boss. Tom is no criminal, but the errands he is running are just slightly on the wrong side of the law and the money is almost good enough to allow him to make his plane payments.
Just as things begin to come under some semblance of control, he meets a woman who just might represent the adventure he seeks. He soon discovers that appearances, and beautiful women, can sometimes be deceiving.
“The Reluctant” is the first in the Crayder Chronicles series and yet is a stand alone story with a satisfying conclusion of its own.
Author Bio:
C.S. Splitter is a businessman, author, and stand-up philosopher living in rural Maryland with his beautiful wife, small dog, and astonishingly large cat. He is an avid shooter and loves being 5000 feet above the ground, upside down, in an open cockpit. He will never again jump out of a perfectly good airplane and feels the need to color outside of the lines. Book three in the “Crayder Chronicles” will be published by June of 2012.
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This seems a good book to read for the month-end. I am also fond of action-adventure ones.
Interesting review. I’ve been seeing that book in the shelves of the local bookstore but I’m pretty torn. Thanks to your review I’m definitely picking up that copy.
Oh that’s quite interesting. I’m looking forward to reading it too. My brother gave me a copy of this but I didn’t really know if it would be a waste of my time or not. Thanks for the review!