Wow! Is anyone still here? Yes? Oh, thank goodness! I didn’t realize how long it’s been since I have posted, and I am so sorry and glad you are still with me. In my defense, as I hope those of you who are also writers can relate, I was busy working on my own debut novel, and it has not been an easy road for me. I was stuck on a certain way I wanted it to go, and finally had to abort that idea as it was much too complicated for a first novel, so I went with my idea on a reduced scale, and I am starting over. For the millionth time or so it seems. Anyway, enough about my excuses, I finally have another review for a very talented writer, Bard Constantine. I received a free copy in exchange for an honest review.

In The Troubleshooter: New Haven Blues, we meet Mick Trubble, a hard-boiled, Sam Spade detective in a futuristic world. Sprinkle in some comic type supporting characters, and set him in a dystopian future, and finally have your protagonist be an individual who is suffering from amnesia so that he does not know who he really is, or remember anything from more than two years before, and you got the gist of this book. He is an aptly named anti-hero, as he does attract plenty of trouble wherever he goes. This is a violent story, yet in parts it will have you laughing out loud until you cry. Now this is a completely different genre than I am usually into. I love mysteries, but not particularly hard-boiled ones, and I’ve never been much into anything dystopian. I did not expect to like this book. I would read some, and stop, but then, I had to keep picking it up to see what happened next! Since I am very open-minded, yet I thought I knew exactly what I liked, this did tend to surprise me, much as it did when I told my rooommate I didn’t like fantasy, until she shared this fantasy series by Stephen Reeder Donaldson, The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant. Has anyone else read these books? They are excellent.

There were no errors in context, syntax or grammar and punctuation. So, I have no choice but to give this my highest recommendation! I give it this many smiles: 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂