Review: This is the first crime novel I've read and liked!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 1, 2013
Jack Lacey gained my interest in the first couple of pages of this novel. How could he not? Any non-Australian author who gives Australia a mention within the first few pages deserves that attention. Yes. I’m an Aussie.But then the real story unfolded.From the tragic scene in the water at the beginning of the book, to the moments of sadness, depression and the urgency of the search that came with a new case, one which Blake did not want to take on but which turned out to be his saviour in the end, this story turned out to be even better than I thought it would be.Written in first person, and written extremely well, I felt every bit of pain, tasted every morsel of food and lost myself completely in this novel. It moved along at a perfect pace with the perfect amount of evocativeness. I’m not a crime thriller reader, in fact I swore I’d never read another crime story again. I used to find them tedious and mind-numbing because of the over-use of descriptive words but I’m glad I read American Crow.Jack Lacey’s writing style is impressive. He has a knack of stringing words together which makes reading his work interesting and exciting. I truly enjoyed American Crow so much so that I’m actually planning to re-read it at a later date.I don’t have any problems in recommending this novel to any lover of crime books. In fact, even if you’re not into the crime thriller stories, I think you’d enjoy this one anyway. I did.I look forward to reading more of Jack Lacey’s work.