Review: Better buckle up, because you are going for a ride!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 10, 2012
Before you open that book, better buckle up because you are going for a ride!Wow, what a story! Boudreau is a skilled writer of edge of your seat tales. I'm not going to rehash the synopsis--other reviewers have written it.I'll just pile onto the existing heap of praise. The characters were very well written--allowing glimpses of their minds. They are complex... Good people doing bad things, bad people doing good things. There was plenty of foreshadowing. Not so much that the story ever became predictable, but enough that I read faster so I could find the whole story behind the little hint that had been dropped. The locations--their descriptions, impressive. The sheer number of details included was stunning. And all of this done without the book ever becoming tedious, or feeling over-written.And everything was described well enough that I never lost track of who was who, and which side they seemed to be on, or which location they currently were. That speaks volumes, because of late, I've read some thrillers that made me think I'd have to keep a notepad handy to keep track of the characters. Not the case in Memory of Greed.The name fits. It made me think and made me sad at the same time, how people suffer for the sake of other people's greed. And the greed, at some levels of society, is not motivated for the pursuit of wealth, but all too often, the pursuit of power...then more power...Well, I'm finished...and I'm feeling the buzz drop--that buzz that fills me when I dig into a great story.Great job, Mr. Boudreau. Five shining stars.