Best Summer Spec Fic. 2006

 

To say that I knew this book was going to be one of my favorites would not be enough. When it arrived in my mailbox I became a little giddy. See T.L. and I have become fast friends over the past years before this book got the green light. He always had something smart to say over in the Faith*in*Fiction discussion board and he always said nice things about my comments. So we had gotten off to a good start. I knew then that he knew how to please and please well he has done with his debut novel.

 

Waking Lazarus is the story of Jude Allman, a man who had been resurrected three times. The first time he as an eight-year old boy. So of course, by the third time he had become part local legend/part celebrity. Jude hid. Changed his name and became a recluse named Ron Gress, a janitor in a small town, Red Lodge, Montana.  However, this little cozy set up of his wouldn't stay this tidy.  Children began to disappear. And worst, the mysteries of his own deaths were wrapped up in the disappearances some how.

Spook-ta-fide. Guarantee(I say with a Creole accent.) :)

 

But beyond the spook factor, this book is a hot dog good read. I am a book critic, so my inner critic is always on when I'm reading. Ane Mulligan and I talked about this last night. But when I read a book and I forget about plot, character, and all the double talk, but just sink in and follow along...choir members, that book gets a 5!! I couldn't find a paragraph, sentence, nothing that wasn't pitch perfect. Hot dog this is a good book(July, $18.99.)

 

And is in the running for one of my top books  of the year. What say you? 

 

 

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