Advantages: Easy to read and quite interesting story Disadvantages: A little simplistic
Act of Faith by Erica James
The story begins with Ali visiting the cemetery where her son is buried and there she bumps into Elliot her former husband and you begin to feel the emotional tension between them As the story develops you find out more about how their son died and why their marriage broke up. This is one element of the story.
Intermixed with this is the relationship between Ali and her school friend Sarah who is in a very strange marriage to Trevor, a rather pious Christian man. He wears his Christianity like a proud badge but is a rather petty dominating husband and old fashioned disciplinarian father. Trevor and Ali do not get along at all but Ali as Sarah?s best friend is godmother to Trevor and Sarah?s daughter, Hannah and this relationship mix provides another element to the story of Ali and Elliot and their problems ...
Advantages: Excellent structure, raises interesting issues, isn't afraid to be complex Disadvantages: Some of the similes were a little off-kilter for me
How reliable is your memory? You may think it serves you well enough - you remember playing with childhood friends or managed to recall enough information to pass exams - but so did Delia.
I've heard a lot about Jodi Picoult lately and have read some reviews, so I thought it was high time I experienced her writing for myself - especially when the paperback edition of Vanishing Acts was staring at me one the supermarket shelf for only £3.74! I was apprehensive at first: would this be another author from the 'chick lit' camp who writes solely about the romantic escapades of women leading superficial lives or would Picoult prove to be one of the best contemporary authors I've come across? Based on this book, it would have to be the latter.
Delia Hopkins is a regular woman in her early thirties with a young child and an alcoholic ...
Advantages: Fast Paced, Several Suspects Disadvantages: -
Tami Hoag has written many novels, but I have to say I have formed an attachment to the Sam Kovac and Nikki Liska detective crime series. Prior Bad Acts is a fast paced thriller involving the police department, Kovac and Liska, the advocate?s bench Chris Logan and Kenny Scott and the judge Carey Moore. The police partnership of Kovac and Liska can be traced back to Hoag?s previous books originally forming in her 1999 novel Ashes to Ashes. However despite the working relationship having developed over the novels, there is no romance to watch out for (yet) between these two cops.
Kovac is a fast thinking, fast moving police detective who likes to lead with his feet, thinking about the consequences later, whilst Liska is a petite female officer with blonde cropped hair and the ability to cut down a criminal verbally in minutes.
The pair ...
