Review: I Lost Precious Sleep Over this Outstanding Read. . .
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 3, 2014
You wanna know how good this book was? I lost my precious 'work sleep' so that I could stay up and finish the ending. I never lose my good sleep, when I have to get up so early in the morning for work, but that's just how damn good this book actually is!It's been a very long time coming that I've read a story that was so coming-of-age and poignant! What an amazing story this was! Joseph Flynn did an outstanding job in bringing to light so many social issues we deal with today, as well as in our historical background. And what makes this story so unique is that he took a subject matter, that is rather unpleasant, kept the integrity of it and was so tastefully done, that the reader cannot help but to come away feeling better for having read it.This novel holds two stories in one. The first being an African-American male is nailed to a dead tree. When Ron Ketchum and his partner, Oliver, stumble across the scene, all hell literally breaks loose! And if nailing black men to trees wasn't bad enough, there was another predator of the four-legged variety seeking prey to keep his fire burning--a mountain lion. Let me just tell you now, before anyone asks, that may sound like the strangest combination ever to read in a book, but I'm telling you these stories work and are outstanding, awesome, nail-biting, heart thumping great reads.What the reader learns along the way as a murderer is walking free among the good citizens of Goldstrike, is indeed a life's lesson one is not likely to ever forget! Well, well done! I absolutely hated this book came to an end.