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Broken Wheels: a short-story trilogy
An R-rated series of short stories focused on the Broken Wheels Bar that was built for those wheel-chair bound and with other disabilities. This is a grown adult's bar, not a community center. Nor a pity-porch. The patrons are thick-skinned and enjoy their bar just like the "Deadwood" clientele enjoyed and protected theirs. Think "Sons of Anarchy" (on another kind of two-wheels) meets "Cheers."
56 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 12, 2023
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November 2, 2023
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🦽 Broken Wheels: a short story trilogy by Thomas Oliver
📚 fiction/mystery/comedy
⭐️ 3 stars
synopsis: follow along with the patrons of the Broken Wheels Bar, built for people who are wheel chair bound or have other life altering disabilities, as they stumble upon two deaths and fight to keep the bar open.
review: I snagged this book on my Kindle for free on a sale day, and I decided since it was a shorter read to get to it whenever I had just a few minutes here or there. Well, I read through it in like 4 sittings at most. The dark humor in this book was ACTUALLY really funny and caught me off guard when it did pop in. It’s a fun read and is definitely not the most serious, which means there’s even a few times that the investigation itself just wasn’t realistic. I was also pretty disappointed when I realized by the second story, we weren’t really getting clues to how anything was happening or how things were being solved. It seemed like a problem was presented, and then the author almost immediately gave away what had happened or how they would fix it without telling us how they even figured things out most the time. That being said, I wasn’t exactly in it FOR the mystery, but more for the characters and humor, so I still found this pretty enjoyable.
🦽 Broken Wheels: a short story trilogy by Thomas Oliver
📚 fiction/mystery/comedy
⭐️ 3 stars
synopsis: follow along with the patrons of the Broken Wheels Bar, built for people who are wheel chair bound or have other life altering disabilities, as they stumble upon two deaths and fight to keep the bar open.
review: I snagged this book on my Kindle for free on a sale day, and I decided since it was a shorter read to get to it whenever I had just a few minutes here or there. Well, I read through it in like 4 sittings at most. The dark humor in this book was ACTUALLY really funny and caught me off guard when it did pop in. It’s a fun read and is definitely not the most serious, which means there’s even a few times that the investigation itself just wasn’t realistic. I was also pretty disappointed when I realized by the second story, we weren’t really getting clues to how anything was happening or how things were being solved. It seemed like a problem was presented, and then the author almost immediately gave away what had happened or how they would fix it without telling us how they even figured things out most the time. That being said, I wasn’t exactly in it FOR the mystery, but more for the characters and humor, so I still found this pretty enjoyable.
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June 24, 2024It is a pretty quick and entertaining read, composed of 3 vignettes with a single backdrop of a bar for the handicap called the Broken Wheels (or BW for short, for some reason). If anything, it was a nice way to spend a lazy afternoon.
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