I loved this great Hillerman-esque mystery, taking place in Taos, New Mexico at a retreat center. I spent a lot of time in Taos growing up. Cedar beautifully captures the feel of the land, places, and people. I think most readers/listeners will find the peaks into mindfulness retreats, zen, and the players therein very fascinating…
Review from Nemesis →
The third part of Robert Kroese’s Mammon series is a climactic Act III that kept me listening and on the edge of my seat. This book mixes personal, familial, political, and professional intrigue, and each of the story lines carries its own weight coming together well in the end. I enjoyed each book in this..
Review from Nemesis →
It’s rare to find a trilogy that keeps the same intensity all the way through (there are peaks and valleys, but it’s all good). Mammon does that to perfection, and Nemesis really brings it all home in a way that keeps the pressure on and makes you wonder just what sort of dastardly deeds are..
The pacing & payoffs in this book feel like it’s a 3rd book moor than a 2nd. Good thing I finished it right as the 3rd audiobook dropped.
Review from Survival of the Fastest →
This book is exceedinly well written and narrated. It is a true story which is very interesting and compelling to continue once started. The book moves pretty fast and does not contain a lot of fluff. It is about Randy Lanier’s life. He was a bad guy; a big time drug smuggler mostly dealing in..
I’m a huge racing fan but never heard Randy’s story. The book is highly engaging and pretty funny at times. Definitely recommend it!
Review from Rikers →
This was an outstanding book, very, very much worth your time. I have been fairly critical in my star ratings because I think that it could’ve been much much more. I have recently reread, “and the band played on” about the. HIV epidemic in the 1980s. That book did a masterful job interweaving histories, both..
Review from Rikers →
As a brother who did a skid bid there once this book is legit.
Review from Titan →
The idea is great and has many interesting threads to it, the potential was there to take it in so many different directions. I’m relatively on-board with the authors politics, but OMG I got fed up of having them shoved in my face. I want to escape US political discourse, not have it rammed into..
Review from Survival of the Fastest →
A drug scandal and auto racing sounded like an exciting true-crime combo. But this story is so flatly told that I quit after 2 hours. The author was not an interesting person, or it never came out in the telling. Even car racing was boring that way this author told the story.