Review: Fast paced and exciting, a real page-turner!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 25, 2013
I'm sure everyone is familiar with a place like Teal County. There are the deep dark secrets, but everyone keeps them hidden to keep up appearances. It's the perfect setting for a book like this because the secrets that are being hidden are a pretty big deal. And these secrets infiltrate into many of the Teal County social circles. As many people as there are that end up being somehow involved in the illicit activities going on it's amazing to me that no one was any the wiser. I guess ignorance is bliss - or if you're working to hide your own secrets you don't have the time to pay attention to what other's are hiding. Not really sure which situation is going on in this one, but either way it was interesting to watch everything unfurl.Nathan was a pretty good character. Until things really started to go awry him along with his computer guru friend Aiden seem to be  one step ahead - of everyone. There were a few times throughout the story that I thought for sure the gig was up and that someone was going to bust Nathan. But he was so well prepared that I didn't even realize what his plans were until the situations revealed themselves. Towards the end he does seem to loose some of his footing, but even then he's a quick thinker and comes up with some great ideas on the fly. I couldn't put it down because I wanted to see what Nathan and Aiden were going to do to get themselves out of their sticky situations. If they were doing things that were on the up and up I would say they were cunning - but what happens in this book is so far beyond being legal that I'd have to call them conniving. And this doesn't really have anything to do with the story itself but every time I pictured Falco he looked like Gru from Despicable Me in my head. There were a few times that I almost expected a minion to jump out from hiding. Which really would have thrown the story for a curve.I loved all the turns this story took. At first it took a bit for me to figure out exactly who was who and what was going on, but once the story really got going I quickly figured things out. It doesn't take long for the story to get going either. There are so many twists to the story that I had to give up on trying to figure out how things were going to end, because as soon as I would start to formulate an ending something would happen that would make my "ending" no longer relevant to the story. I loved that even though this book is fast paced, has so many twists, and so many intertwining story lines it's not confusing to read. I was able to quickly pick up on what was going on and who the key figures were. It even had a bit of comedy thrown in for good measure. It was an exciting book and was highly enjoyable.I was provided a copy of this book in exchange for a review. This review is my truthful honest opinion.