Review: Better than. . .
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 29, 2013
Did you hear of the novel REAMDE?  I even read it!  This book is better. This is a well-written, thought-provoking, enjoyable read. It is chock-full of all the standard tropes, hooker with heart of gold, Manchurian Candidate nods, flawed but amazingly wonderful humans (my forte, I might add). Pink Floyd is assuredly playing in the background just out of the range of human hearing. When you have to stop reading the story  for whatever reason, you will notice a sense of relief when you are able to resume. All so plausible but so out of the range of reason plot points, etc. A fun ride. A movie in your head. You don't want to go get the free popcorn refill. Would have six or seven stars from me, but, on a purely personal level, I was not happy with the ending. And at the end of the ending, another little plot extending zinger. Climb into this one. But you will be shaking your head when it is over.Almost an A on formatting, proof reading misses, etc.  Maybe an A-.