While these chapters commence with a man lying stilly in an icy cell, the scene bristles with impending action. It’s like watching a coiled snake just before it strikes its prey—you don’t know when the movement will come but you know it’s imminent.
What happens next more than lives up to the promise of those early moments. However, the author doesn’t take the expected route. Rather than read Shane’s violent exit from the Chess prison, the action shifts to the conversation between Ava and the nervous Jared. In fact, if you read carefully, you’ll see that actual depiction of bloodshed and brutality are rather tame. The tension lies in between the lines, in what is implied rather than what is written on the page.
What we are dealing with is a writer gifted in nuance, metaphor and delicate impressionistic brushstrokes. Not everything is going to spelled out; not every fight scene is going to have every punch laboriously detailed. While the story is clear enough, we the reader are going to be trusted to figure out what is happening without being spoonfed every element.
This novel promises to be grim but with humor, painful romance, gritty action, dusty poverty and tense camaraderie spilled onto the page. Will it end as tragically as the real Bonnie and Clyde that was its inspiration? Engage with Ava and Shane if you want to find out, reader.
What happens next more than lives up to the promise of those early moments. However, the author doesn’t take the expected route. Rather than read Shane’s violent exit from the Chess prison, the action shifts to the conversation between Ava and the nervous Jared. In fact, if you read carefully, you’ll see that actual depiction of bloodshed and brutality are rather tame. The tension lies in between the lines, in what is implied rather than what is written on the page.
What we are dealing with is a writer gifted in nuance, metaphor and delicate impressionistic brushstrokes. Not everything is going to spelled out; not every fight scene is going to have every punch laboriously detailed. While the story is clear enough, we the reader are going to be trusted to figure out what is happening without being spoonfed every element.
This novel promises to be grim but with humor, painful romance, gritty action, dusty poverty and tense camaraderie spilled onto the page. Will it end as tragically as the real Bonnie and Clyde that was its inspiration? Engage with Ava and Shane if you want to find out, reader.