Review: Roller-Coaster Rocker
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 25, 2012
Buried SecretsThe author very well understands her characters, so the reader sees them from inside out, as if they were our own friends or family. That makes it simple for us to empathise, and want to see the deserving ones rewarded, the bullies and jerks disciplined or at least going without. Then too, the suspense starts right from the very beginning, with poor loner James' itinerant friend, A. J., a boy whom only James knows and who is the only person who really respects and befriends James. Before we can get our feet solidly on the ground story-wise, the author turns us topsy-turvy with the first major tragic event-and before we can catch our breath from that, we're tossed five years forward, and watching the past determine to replay itself-only this time, will things turn out right for James? Or will tragedy strike again-and again? Homecoming can be a wonderful thing-or it can mean misery.I really liked the author's approach. I didn't have time nor inclination to lose interest, because the story was "always happening," and I just kept reading and flipping the pages without even thinking, to learn more and more. Author Brandi Salazar does not disappoint; the goodies in this novel just keep on rollin'. "Buried Secrets" has quite a different, yet appealing, "feel" to it, and I enjoyed it very much. I've put Ms. Salazar on my "must read all" list.