Review: The Actor With A Thousand Faces
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 19, 2012
Hysterical for Harvard (A Jake Logan Private Tutor Mystery) M.A. WentworthI received a complimentary digital copy of this book for review with no promise of a good review and no compensation.Jake Logan is a wonderful anti-hero, he can manage many situations with any one of dozens of personas he'd created as an actor. The tone of "Hysterical for Harvard" was light with just enough insight to make the characters and their problems compelling. The author was especially good at characterization; even minor players were varied and interesting.  I enjoyed Jake and his skewed point of view enough to want to see him in a series. I found the details of the cultural pressure on young Asian students, to succeed in out competing other top students for a place in the most prestigious colleges fascinating. While the scenes were set up to be funny the underlying facts were uncomfortably close to the truth.The one drawback to the book was the ending, which seemed abrupt and left several dangling questions. The main storyline was resolved and set up the hero for an intriguing new dilemma in the next book.