Review: Another American Opinion (Spoiler Alert)
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 03 9, 2014
OK, Luke. Five stars on Parts 1, 2, and 3, but not on Part 4.  Will check out anything else you publish because I think you are an original and I enjoy the way you develop your characters better and more sympathetically than most.  I loved the mystery, the ending and the story arc. HOWEVER, I was completely blind-sided by the sheer perversion of the Chuck character plus by the many pages of his run-on internal dialogue.  In my opinion, they were inconsistent with the tone and contrary to the sensibility of the rest of the book.  They detracted from the story, so I ended up just skimming over those pages to get to the parts I cared about.  It's not prudishness on my part, just boredom.  I did enjoy Charlie's and Minnie's internal dialogues because they WERE consistent with the rest of the story.  I read your post-script after the ending and your reply to the other American, but I was unpersuaded.  I think Chuck could have felt what he felt about Charlie and Minnie and done all he did without those two things taken to the extreme.  Part 4 would have been tighter and kept up the suspense better.  Chuck's internal dialogues broke the suspense for me.  If I didn't like the rest of the work so much, wouldn't have taken the time to think about this and write to you.  Just my thoughts, right after racing through the first three parts and then feeling like I had to plod through part 4.  Good luck and keep writing.