Review: Unpredictable criminal suspense story!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 08 29, 2011
** I received a copy of this book from the author in exchange for an honest review.  The author did not bribe me with chocolate or anything else. **Brightwing mostly revolves around three people, Lucy Brightwing, Edgar and Mallory Battle.  Edgar and Mallory Battle are brothers and are running for their lives to get away from an interstate manhunt.  Mallory is a psychopath who will indiscriminately kill anyone and everyone and especially enjoys carving up his female victims. Edgar is a small time thief and thug. Lucy Brightwing is also a criminal but she is more of a thief, but will kill when necessary.  When the three of them find each other on a dark deserted road it was sure to be an intense ride.Edgar and Mallory decide they need a female hostage (because Mallory keeps killing the ones they had) and when they come across Lucy, she seems like the perfect hostage.  Lucy has her own motivations for not getting caught and decides not to kill these two guys until they have suited her purpose. So she helps them escape into her homeland -  the swamps of Florida.I enjoyed this story and I liked that it didn't take the normal romantic road ... and they lived happily ever after ... at the end.  I really enjoyed the Native American stories that were scattered in the story.  I really enjoyed the descriptions of the swamp.  That maybe because I live in Alaska and it would be hard for me to imagine swamplands on my own, but whatever the reason, the descriptions made it easier for me to visualize them.This story took its own road... a muddy and bumpy road, but that was okay. One of the best things I liked about this book is that it was not predictable!  I kept thinking that the author was going to kill off Mallory to help the romance between Edgar and Lucy move along, but ...