Review: Has its issues, but a nice story
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 07 1, 2012
The book definitely needs tightening up, as others have mentioned, and could easily be 20 - 30% shorter if it lost the superfluous material that doesn't add to the story line.  I'm still wondering why the author chose to spend so much time with James, Brick and Jerry getting together to smoke pot and get drunk all the time.  A male bonding ritual?  I found it incongruous with their personalities and the rest of the their lives.  Very much a non-sequitur to me.  The main character, James, spends far too much angsting in the beginning of the book, and it does drag, but I am glad I stuck with it.  In the end I found it an enjoyable book, although I probably won't be reading it again.  Another reviewer described it as a small town romance, and that fits it well.