Post by janetandjohn on Mar 8, 2016 17:05:46 GMT
If you like snow, small babies, brave women....... That's how I was going to start this review, but it's better than that.
Percy (female) is a high school drop-out, has a meth addict for a mother, and is sixteen. When her ma has not been seen around for a couple of weeks and a bad storm is on the way on the southern shores of Lake Michigan, Percy sets out to look for her. What she finds is something different altogether. At the house where she spots her mother's car, she finds a couple of zonked out druggies, one a guy she knows supplies her mother and the other a female. Upstairs is a dead dog and a small baby. Abandoning any thought of her mother's whereabouts, she knows the baby needs help, and fast - and so she takes it, and heads off for the home of a friend of her mother's - a man whose only vice these days is whiskey. But the baby belongs to someone, and someone else offers money to get it back.
Rather like the characters in Fargo, those with little brain who believe they know what they are doing will often fall foul of others of the same ilk. And soon there are a few bodies in the snow. This is a very black comedy, with a bit of heartbreak thrown in. An easy to read thriller that has some laugh out loud moments, but also lets you know, if you had no idea before, what drug-taking can do for a person.
Whilst reading I was thinking that this would make a brilliant film, and I wouldn't be surprised if the rights had been snapped up already. The author's first novel and not a bad attempt at all. I would certainly read him again.
[copy of my Amazon review]
Percy (female) is a high school drop-out, has a meth addict for a mother, and is sixteen. When her ma has not been seen around for a couple of weeks and a bad storm is on the way on the southern shores of Lake Michigan, Percy sets out to look for her. What she finds is something different altogether. At the house where she spots her mother's car, she finds a couple of zonked out druggies, one a guy she knows supplies her mother and the other a female. Upstairs is a dead dog and a small baby. Abandoning any thought of her mother's whereabouts, she knows the baby needs help, and fast - and so she takes it, and heads off for the home of a friend of her mother's - a man whose only vice these days is whiskey. But the baby belongs to someone, and someone else offers money to get it back.
Rather like the characters in Fargo, those with little brain who believe they know what they are doing will often fall foul of others of the same ilk. And soon there are a few bodies in the snow. This is a very black comedy, with a bit of heartbreak thrown in. An easy to read thriller that has some laugh out loud moments, but also lets you know, if you had no idea before, what drug-taking can do for a person.
Whilst reading I was thinking that this would make a brilliant film, and I wouldn't be surprised if the rights had been snapped up already. The author's first novel and not a bad attempt at all. I would certainly read him again.
[copy of my Amazon review]
