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Haunted by horrific memories from his abused childhood, the main character finds a notebook of three children bonded together by the stories of their own parent’s atrocities to them. Determined to seek revenge on their behalf while they are in temporary hiding from harm, he sets out to violently kill each one of the evil parents.
Amazing emotional roller coaster ride,
June 22, 2003
By: “Shelsgarden”
When a book draws me in as strongly and completely as this one, takes me to the heart and feelings of the characters so completely, I am hooked on the author. Blake has that wonderful ability to make you feel just what these innocent children are experiencing to the point where I would have to put the book down for a while. But I couldn’t stay away long. The dark and compassionate Mason is a remarkable and very different kind of hero, and though this is a work of fiction, it makes me wish more of us had the heart and guts to take more action to help abused children escape the horror. (Of course, I found myself wishing that Mason had just used his great riches and taken the children and his love, Rachel, and disappeared, all living happily ever after, while the monster parents wondered for the rest of their lives … but then there wouldn’t have been much of a story, now would there.) What an incredible debut … I will be looking out for his next novel.
Images of everyday life captured perfectly! Eye-opening,August 7, 2002 by: “kpandp”
A great read you will not put down. Read it. It will touch you.
Editorial Review – Cahners Business Information (c) 2002,That hoary old antihero of the murder mystery, the vigilante serial killer, is re-conceived and supplied with a relatively new target in Blake’s lurid debut novel, which takes place in a Louisiana backwater town where a series of abusive parents find themselves targeted for murder by a former child-abuse victim. The novel begins when young Danny Rampart and two of his friends run away after their efforts to protect themselves against their abusive parents prove futile. Matters are complicated when Danny’s father, Bobby, is violently murdered, sending a chill through the tiny town of Sutter Springs. Most of the perspective on the town and the murders is provided by Mason Xavier, a former down-and-out resident who inherited millions after his parents died, and his sexy girlfriend, Rachel Borello. The high school principal, who has been letting the children hide out in the school over the summer, begins to suspect Xavier when the parents of another runaway child are killed. Blake takes a considerable risk by foreshadowing Xavier as the killer well before the climax of the novel, relying on a series of half-baked plot twists to sustain the suspense as Xavier abducts one of the runaway children to keep the police off his tail. The plotting is solid albeit pedestrian, but the quality of the prose ranges from generic to clumsy, and genre cliches pop up at regular intervals. Blake manages to generate some tension here and there, but overall this is a trite, overwrought debut. (Sept.)
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