So here's the deal. I am an addicted NOOK owner. Yeah, I know for many bibliophiles this is like admitting you break spines and dog ear books. I get it. It's a brand new frontier for those of us who have spent thousands of dollars collecting books, making bookshelves out of books, filling rooms floor to ceiling with books until they take over our entire home. I have lived my entire life with books in every room so the transition to a NOOK was not done without a bit of trepidation. Now I am a NOOK BOOK nut. I get such a kick out of adding to my library with a mere click or two of a button or whathaveyou. Anyway, back to the book COUNTY LINE.
Normally I do not read "Noir" but it was my free friday NOOK book selection and as a reader with a limited budget I downloaded it to give it a whirl. (After all, if I didn't like it, it was free right?) Who among us can pass up a free book? Not me.
The first few chapters I was thinking I was so not going to like this book; there was no back story so I could not sympathize with the protagonist and I didn't "get" him or the plot. It was as though I had been dropped into the third or second book of a series without any understanding of the characters and their histories. But I persevered. Man, am I glad I did. Into the second third of the book I was hooked;couldn't put it down. When I finished the book I knew I would be adding this author to my list of those to follow. I will definitely read more of Bill Cameron's books and maybe I'll even find out why Skin Kadash is called "Skin" and how he came to be so battered, bruised and tortured.
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