Review: HARD MEN, STUNNING BEAUTIES & ONE ENJOYABLE STORY!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 17, 2014
Scales of the Rainbow Serpent by Budd F. Severs is an absorbing story based on opal mining near Coober Pedy, an opal mining town located in the harsh Outback of South Australia, some 850 kilometres north of Adelaide and 680 kilometres south of Alice Springs. Known as the Opal Capital of the world with a population of approximately 3,500, Coober Pedy has one of the most multicultural communities in Australia with an estimated 45 nationalities.Budd F. Severs has done extensive research in the writing of this riveting story, making it totally believable while it is certainly enjoyable. Scales of the Rainbow Serpent follows the story Matt Gould who travels to a primitive mining settling in search of his buddy Val "Brumby" Heath, an unsuccessful opal miner who is running on hard times.Matt Gould finds more than what he bargained for. There is the cunning and deceitful opal buyer, Jonas Wade, who has a daughter Cappy, who in turn is deeply obsessed with Brumby. Jonas is cruel and cold-blooded, a man with a terrible past. Maggie O'Meara’s beauty is a stunning beauty but a quirk turn of circumstances forces her to be engaged in an immoral activity. When these fascinating characters assembled in the opal mining field of Harlequin Hills with their own agendas, you have a story that will grip and engage you deeply. And when Matt and Brumby hatched a plan to rob Jonas, sparks are bound to fly.While the story is enjoyable and the characters are believable, the cover of the book which shows a nude woman is in bad taste. It makes the book look like and erotica which it certainly is not.