When I was younger I was secretly jealous of my
parents. Both of them read novels like
it was the sustenance they needed to go on.
Grandma or Aunty Joni or someone my Dad worked with would drop off a
shopping bag full of books that the two of them would read through, write their
initials on the first page so they didn’t repeat books, and then the bag of
novels would go onto the next person. To
this day I have no idea where the bags of book originated.
I was a very slow reader. Every page I wrote made me want to fall
asleep, so no matter how much I knew it was good for my writing I wouldn’t read
a lot. Only in the past few years have I
truly found the joy of reading.
My Mother can get a book and tell me in two or three
days that she’s done while I still struggle along trying to read the same book
for weeks. So I thought, why not have
Mom write some reviews. Only problem is
she doesn’t think she has much to say so I’m going to ask her the questions and
write the reviews for her.
For her first review I asked Mom to read Nowhere to
Run by Nina D’Angelo. For this book I
was reading it to do a review and it had received such great amazing reviews
that I couldn’t understand why I didn’t like. I haven’t done a review for it because I
stopped reading it. I reached a scene
where the main character does something that I thought was stupid in the movie
I Know What you did Last Summer. (the throwing your arms out and challenging
the unseen, unknown killer to come get her)
There is a lot of backstory that seems to keep repeating itself over and over and what
seemed to me like a lot of soap opera action.
I wondered if maybe this isn’t really a guy’s book, so I asked Mom what
she thought.
Book................Nowhere
To Run
Author...............Nina
D'Angelo
Rating...............4
stars out of 5
Was the story
believable for you?... in this crazy world anything is possible, would you go
or be able to go after the killer yourself, I don't think so.
Would you
recommend it to friends?.......Yes
Did any
part of the book stand out?........I didn't like the ending. They got the killer but someone else is
watching. You have to wait for next book
to see who ends up with who. I'm not one
for sequels
Would you
read more books from this author?........Yes, I would read more of this Authors
books
Synopsis from Amazon
A dominatrix is murdered; her body displayed in a show of dominance. An actress is found dead beneath the Hollywood sign. There's a murderer roaming the streets of Los Angeles and he's having far too much fun to stop. Stephanie Carovella is a woman of fire and ice. She left her career, her friends and her home town of LA but she couldn't outrun the demons of her past. When she is lured back by the death of her best friend she enters a world where no one's safe. Can Stephanie find her friend's killer or will she discover that she has nowhere to run?
So that's what Mom Says. Maybe I was in a bad mood when I started reading Nowhere to Run. I was struggling with my own writing a tthe time. So to be fare I am going to wait a little while and then try reading the novel again. If you want to see what others had to say about the novel click on this link, Nowhere to Run.
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