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Smiling Jack
Between trying to get rid of his crazy girlfriend and meeting the new girl in town, you'd think TJ had enough to do for a high school student without trying to solve a forty-year old murder. Everyone is telling him to leave it alone, but he can't do that. Now someone else wants TJ to forget about the past, and he's willing to kill to make him. Can TJ and his new friend catch the old killer before the new one silences them for good?
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First published March 16, 2013
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August 22, 2013
Interesting mix of high school end-of-world melodrama and gut-wrenching terror. Light on gore, which usually makes for tepid pace in a serial killer story; not so with Smiling Jack. Author is skilled at keeping the reader entertained with the main character's hijinks and then smacking you with another brutal crime just as you're getting comfortable.
Although the main characters, TJ and Navi, are teenagers, this is by no means a YA novel. There are some definitely adult themes happening in Smiling Jack. Violence and strong language (more about this later) are in no short supply. The author doesn't spend page after page dousing us in buckets of gore, but certainly pulls no punches, either.
A note about the language. This is not a YA book, and these are not YA characters. TJ is a healthy, red-blooded teenage boy with a full toolbox of curse words when he needs them. I actually found this somewhat refreshing, and the interactions between TJ and his best friend are wonderfully vulgar (without drifting off into obscenity or depravity) as only young men can be when they're hanging out together.
All in all, I rate the book 4 stars. Some of the supporting cast seemed flat, although the author does a magnificent job of bringing his leads to life.
Although the main characters, TJ and Navi, are teenagers, this is by no means a YA novel. There are some definitely adult themes happening in Smiling Jack. Violence and strong language (more about this later) are in no short supply. The author doesn't spend page after page dousing us in buckets of gore, but certainly pulls no punches, either.
A note about the language. This is not a YA book, and these are not YA characters. TJ is a healthy, red-blooded teenage boy with a full toolbox of curse words when he needs them. I actually found this somewhat refreshing, and the interactions between TJ and his best friend are wonderfully vulgar (without drifting off into obscenity or depravity) as only young men can be when they're hanging out together.
All in all, I rate the book 4 stars. Some of the supporting cast seemed flat, although the author does a magnificent job of bringing his leads to life.
April 12, 2013
Great book! Well written, the story was great and kept me on my toes until the end! Loved it!
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