Review: Rhys Ford is a brilliant storyteller
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 2, 2014
This is a partial review. Please see my full review on the Smoocher's Voice blog.With each book in the Sinners Series, Rhys Ford draws readers deeper into the world of the Sinner’s Gin bandmates and the Morgan clan.  In this third installment in the series, Tequila Mockingbird, readers have the opportunity to meet and fall in love with Forest Ackerman and lust after Connor Morgan.With her usual flourishes, grit and humor, Ford grabs ahold of the reader on page one and doesn’t let go until the end of the book, and that is only because the writing stops, not because the story has ended.When readers first meet Forest, he is starving, injured and trapped in a dumpster. Franklin Marshall feeds the young man and tries to take care of him. Forest is grateful, although he goes back and forth between staying with Marshall and going back to his abusive, drug-addicted mother, who lets men use Forest’s body to pay for her addiction.Between the fires, explosions and shooting, Forest’s world is literally crumbling around him. And, while Forest’s world and life is literally shattering, Connor Morgan’s personal walls are crumbling, proving that the best laid plans of mice and men do indeed go awry, especially with Ford at the helm.Ford is a brilliant story teller and artful writer. Her vivid, descriptive prose depicts both the harsh reality of Forest’s life as well as the warmth, tenderness and depth of the Morgan’s world. In typical Ford fashion, humor is sprinkled into both the prose and dialogue.In Tequila Mockingbird, the characters readers have come to love in this series are given more depth, Ford allows us to fall just a little bit more in love with Brigid and Donal Morgan, as well as Miki St. James and Damian. But Connor does steal the show: the same Connor who struggled with his thoughts and feelings when he approached Donal, the patriarch of the Morgan clan, for a talk in Whiskey and Wry.Rhys Ford has penned another impressive story with Tequila Mockingbird. The series keeps getting better with each installment. It is not just the action-packed plot and well developed plot that makes this a great book, it is that connection between the characters that keeps readers begging for more.