Review: Black Hearted Harvest
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 12, 2012
Recipes are not only for cooking, they're used in many facets of life. For instance your job, household projects, on-line shopping and even funerals, they all require planning, procedures and rules.Reading Black Harvest was like reading a unique recipe with all kinds of events mixing together. Alex Lukeman added many descriptions that are crisp, neat and to the point. Example: His suit was tailored, English made, a gray pinstripe of fine wool."Then he included declarative sentences that felt awkward, and some were intermingled sketches that were combined with sterile character descriptions which felt less clumsy. The writing style at times felt emblematic; "what and how to describe" features? Should they be flowery or hit & run? Many were hit and run; "He had a headache." "The food was good." Sometimes the real story was camouflaged under a veneer of declarative comments with minimal, poignant observations, scripture dialog, and at times there was uncertain character detachment from the overall plot, yet, and somehow, it all meshed together.Black Harvest sat nicely in my psyche. The declarative moments moved the story curiously forward. The story to me was pop-rock. It works as an urgent fix to read espionage action with guns, explosions, military-type insertions, political eczema, exploitable power, and including a surface love story. In theory, the plot was serious and tense, in fiction the plot was authoritative and as an entertaining read it hits the mark. Enjoy reading.