Review: Survive If You Can
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 7, 2014
If you want to hook a reader for the long haul that is a serialized crime/thriller novel, you may as well start with your protagonist locked in the trunk of a sinking car. It worked for Eric Beetner.In quick fashion, Ridley goes from lovestruck to hellbound when his girlfriend goes missing and Ridley seems to be the only one looking for her. His search sends him to a seedy little nightclub where he runs afoul of some very mean and alarmingly sadistic gangsters. From there, Ridley knows his gal's life is in danger and now his is, too.It ain't fancy, but it is exciting, and Beetner offers plenty of high tension and peril for his hapless hero to wade through. Considering the somewhat sadsack nature of Ridley, it's easy to see that 2014 will be a very long year for him. And the way things end off for this first part, it becomes clear that "The Year I Died Seven Times" is a very apt title.