Review: A Book With a Split Personality...
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 29, 2012
This was an usual book to say the least.  Perhaps in the world of hybrid cars, it's fitting that we have a hybrid book.  On one hand, Play Him Again wants to be a Roaring Twenties, gangland-style, hard-boiled, crime saga about bootlegging during Prohibition.  On the other hand, it also wants to be an informative, documentary-style account of the birth of the motion picture industry in Los Angeles.  The writing is crisp; the characters well-drawn and worth investing in; and the story engaging and imaginative.  Make no mistake about it, I highly recommend this book (it's a good yarn).  I would have given it five stars (instead of four), had it not been for its bi-polar nature, which, in my humble opinion, keeps it from being just that little bit better than it already is.  But still, a heck of a good job, Jeffrey!