Review: Intelligent Plot, Excellent Writing & A Whole Lot of Fun
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 16, 2012
I enjoyed Robert Spiller's Radical Equations and I think the author came up with an ingenius plot.  Without giving too much away, politics are afoot, and the story opens the day after the vice principal has gotten himself into hot water at a town meeting.  Protagonist Bonnie Pinkwater and her Wiccan friend are on a hike, and a storm sets in.  The two friends stumble into a cave and lo and behold, they spy the vice principal,  who is very dead.  Bonnie and Rhiannon, know better than to interfere with a crime scene and they hightail it away, and barely escape a storm.  Deputy Hickman appears and takes over, Bonnie returns to the high school, and gets trapped when a tornado passes through the town.I should mention here, that if you enjoy weather as an antagonist, you will love this book.  Spiller wrote one of the best tornado scenes, I have ever read.He also does internal narrative just about better than anyone.But what I think I enjoyed most was reading Bonnie the teacher in action with her students, one in particular, a boy named Isaac who was injured and sentenced to life in a wheelchair.  As one, who doesn't understand math, I think I might have  grown to love it, particularly if I'd had a teacher like Missus Bonnie PInkwater.If you enjoy a fine mystery with interesting well drawn secondary characters, I think you will enjoy this book.  Looking forward to the next novel in the series.  Well done, Mr. Spiller.