ABNA Publishers Weekly Reviewer (Amazon.com Breakthrough Novel Award)
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"This novel details the struggles of 50-year-old Rooster McNair, a one-time drug smuggler who’s now a respectable computer industry worker trying to escape a past that refuses to let him go. Like Rooster, the novel struggles for a clear identity of its own: in one corner is a dark and often compelling crime story that doesn’t find its legs until nearly halfway through; in the other is an occasionally silly and offensive social and domestic drama (Rooster is doing a project for the DooMee Corporation, maker of virtual sex toys, that unintentionally makes women defecate in their pants). Unfortunately, there is no clear winner, and despite the ostensible thematic relationship of the struggles between loyalty and infidelity, the redeemed and the corrupt, the hybrid never really takes. This is not to say that Rooster’s complicated relationships with women are without interest, or that there are not occasional flashes of wit and insight, but the “bromantic” struggles he has with fellow ex-con and childhood best friend, Johnny Fallon, are compelling and deserve more focus. While Rooster’s adventures in the computer trade are humdrum, reading about them should not be, and the failure of this subplot is spectacularly counterpointed by the vivid, entertaining and fresh description of a smuggling trip that Rooster and Fallon took to Colombia."
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
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2 comments:
A PW review! Outstanding!
And, really, as reviews go, not too shabby. A lot of the details brought into the review make the book sound both funny and intriguing.
(A virtual sex toy that makes women defecate? Neil! ha!)
Wow. I don't agree with them, really, but how cool is it to get that kind of feedback from an outfit like Publisher's Weekly?
And bully for you for putting it out there.
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