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Baiting the Hook
When the storms of life blow, can true love stay afloat?
Childhood friends Davey Simpson and Pokey Merrill overcame the lies that kept them apart and are now engaged to be married. Now they’re fighting to stay together and to stay alive.
Davey secretly infiltrates the KKK to protect his best friend, a black man running for governor of Alabama. Pokey secretly undergoes experimental surgery to regain the use of her legs. And both secretly doubt if they are good enough to deserve the others’ love. Amidst murder and politics, Davey baits the hook to real in the bad guys.
Can Pokey and David survive the rough seas of insecurity, hatred and deceit? Can their love?
Childhood friends Davey Simpson and Pokey Merrill overcame the lies that kept them apart and are now engaged to be married. Now they’re fighting to stay together and to stay alive.
Davey secretly infiltrates the KKK to protect his best friend, a black man running for governor of Alabama. Pokey secretly undergoes experimental surgery to regain the use of her legs. And both secretly doubt if they are good enough to deserve the others’ love. Amidst murder and politics, Davey baits the hook to real in the bad guys.
Can Pokey and David survive the rough seas of insecurity, hatred and deceit? Can their love?
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First published November 30, 2012
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July 2, 2015
If I could sum up this book in one word it would be RUSHED.
First off, I would like to point out this book is a sequel to one entitled, To Catch A Fish. At no point on the cover, in the blurb, or anywhere else is this fact revealed. It matters little because Baiting the Hook stands on it's own with only a little backstory missing. Still, I hate that when a book is part of a series and that information is not revealed.
Every scene and story line in this book is rushed. Many, many details are left out, many issues never resolved, and many things dropped in for convenience sake without any prior mention to foreshadow. New characters pop in late in the novel with important roles. And most of all, just about everyone is really stupid or do a lot of really stupid things.
Davey decides to go to a KKK meeting and when a decision is made to kill his best friend Ben, Davey volunteers for the job!
Davey decides to go kill someone and brings an empty gun.
Ben, who is running for Governor, runs around doing things staff should be doing and has zero security, even though he knows the KKK are out to get him.
Pokey and Davey, who are engaged, don't talk to each other the whole book, both thinking they aren't worthy, then suddenly, everything is fine.
Every police officer is a downright moron. They lose people in their own building, make blatant false charges against people, and never catch anyone guilty.
So many unrealistic things happen that at times I wondered whether it was supposed to be a comedy.
Among countless unfinished sub-plots like Pokey's legs, you never get complete closure on the criminals.
Only because the authors were published by a now defunct small publisher who obviously failed to properly advise and edit them will I give them some benefit of the doubt. Otherwise, I would have given this book one star.
First off, I would like to point out this book is a sequel to one entitled, To Catch A Fish. At no point on the cover, in the blurb, or anywhere else is this fact revealed. It matters little because Baiting the Hook stands on it's own with only a little backstory missing. Still, I hate that when a book is part of a series and that information is not revealed.
Every scene and story line in this book is rushed. Many, many details are left out, many issues never resolved, and many things dropped in for convenience sake without any prior mention to foreshadow. New characters pop in late in the novel with important roles. And most of all, just about everyone is really stupid or do a lot of really stupid things.
Davey decides to go to a KKK meeting and when a decision is made to kill his best friend Ben, Davey volunteers for the job!
Davey decides to go kill someone and brings an empty gun.
Ben, who is running for Governor, runs around doing things staff should be doing and has zero security, even though he knows the KKK are out to get him.
Pokey and Davey, who are engaged, don't talk to each other the whole book, both thinking they aren't worthy, then suddenly, everything is fine.
Every police officer is a downright moron. They lose people in their own building, make blatant false charges against people, and never catch anyone guilty.
So many unrealistic things happen that at times I wondered whether it was supposed to be a comedy.
Among countless unfinished sub-plots like Pokey's legs, you never get complete closure on the criminals.
Only because the authors were published by a now defunct small publisher who obviously failed to properly advise and edit them will I give them some benefit of the doubt. Otherwise, I would have given this book one star.
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