Review: 'All we need is an elaborate plan.'
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 10 3, 2012
Rory Sherer's debut book is the tale of `A butcher, baker, and candlestick maker attempt to remove `Fat' Tony Palmenterri, the don of the mafia, from power in Little Italy during The Great Depression.'  But that doesn't begin to explain the charm of his little eBook.  Sherer has opted to make the dialogue rhyme and to keep it sparse so that his drawings/illustrations bounce off the page. In a word, it works!Scherer manages to concoct a tale of how the Great Depression affected everyone - from the ones who profited form it  (aka the Mafia) to those who suffered because of it.  He gives us three Italian guys - Joseph Florentino, a butcher who lives in fear of his vicious wife Flourence, Morris Delveccio, a lothario baker who is juggling girlfriends, and Beau Verducci, a candle stick maker whose father was killed by the mafia years earlier leaving him to care for this wise but ailing grandmother Doris.  How these three seeming disparate men come together to hatch a plan that will free them from the treachery of Mafia boss `Fat' Tony Palmenterri.  And the story is a `to be continued.'This is light reading, and 'light' may be the operative word indeed: in Sherer's drawing whenever an idea is hatched he introduces the color yellow as from a light source that plucks the imagination and keeps the reader involved - that `what happens next' syndrome.  And by the way the rhyming sequence is additive to the flavor of the book. Grady Harp, October 12I received a free copy of this item for review.