Review: A Memorable Read
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 22, 2013
Judith Blackwell had lost touch with her best friend, Jasmine Morrison, over the years, but she remembered. They'd been best friends in school and even blood sisters. Judith was at the lowest point in her life when the newspaper clipping of Jasmine's obituary came in the mail. Judith's son had died several years ago, and her husband had been killed in a plane accident more recently. In fact, she had been considering suicide, until she read that Jasmine had taken her own life. She immediately decided to go back to her hometown of Cedar Crest to find out what had happened. She felt she owed Jasmine that much. What she uncovers, along with handsome law enforcement agent Adam Ford, is a can of vipers.In some ways, this is disturbing novel with racism, white supremacy groups, kidnapping, blackmail, and murder. Regrettably, these things do still exist. Jasmine's story is a sad one, and I wish Judith's romance had been more solved by the end to offset the tragedy. Still, I certainly think the book was worth reading. I found the pacing a little too slow in some places, especially around the middle of the novel, but it got better at times, too. I appreciated that it had no profanity or sex scenes. I found a few mistakes, but some of them could be scanning problems. "Tthis" was used for "this." "hack" for "back," "harry" for the name "Harry," and "plum" for "plumb." "Set their sites" should have been "sights" and  " "cause was used for " 'cause" a number of times. In addition there were a couple of missing quotation marks in the sets and breaks in the middle of paragraphs. These weren't so bad as to detract from the story, however.