Review: This is what happens when you are related to the leader of a London gang.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 2, 2014
Cannonside by Andy Christopher can best be described as the written form of the popular television series The Sopranos, but with British accents and manners. This was a fast paced and overall very entertaining novel. There was always action and power plays, keeping the reader on their toes the whole time. The author did a good job of pacing the story and keeping it succinct. The main character is flawed providing some serious moral dilemmas, and I kind of liked that. Most of the characters and events that occur do not fall into a simple black or white, right or wrong category and are more easily classified in varying shades of grey. Whereas this book does have several somewhat graphic depictions of violence, it does not in any way glorify this lifestyle. On the contrary, this novel shows how easy it can be for descent people to slide down a slippery slope of poor decisions. So if you don’t mind a little bit of gang violence in your reading and you want an entertaining quick read, then this would be a great book for you.