Review: Broken Café
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 27, 2014
This dark gripping story grabs your attention and in seconds you are pulled into the dark suspenseful mystery that is Joe Café. Terrifying doesn't properly describe it. Everything feels real which had my emotions scattered all over the place. It's a clever plot that gave me goosebumps because the storyline was so incredibly believable. The writing is clear and crisp. Not over or under dramatic. Great story telling with a well developed plot and characters that have a realness to them. There are some gut wrenching moments that took my breath away.Joe Café could be anywhere. Even somewhere close to home."It had been a while since Chet had had more than a few hundred dollars to his name. He wanted to be cautious with the money, but he also wanted to live it up. It had been too long since he had touched a woman. The girl in the cafe had awoken something in him. The club was nearly empty, and the fact that Chet was handing out dollar bills like a suburban cop hands out tickets made up for the fact that he was an unappealing,and even frightening, man. It wasn't that he was big. It was the thin black hair. The boyish face. The baby fat. The squinty, shifting eyes. The sarcastic comments that never landed...that came out bitter and mean. Strippers are used to mean, squinty-eyed bastards. They looked at Chet and saw money..."