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6 reviews
Jane Kotapish

Macadam Cage Pub, 2008

Kotapish weaves magic into her imagery
Some authors are magicians with words, casting spells that leave readers almost lovesick. In Salvage, I fell in love with Kotapish's stylish, lyrical phrasing and imagery. Take, for example, this description of roses on a fence: "... the roses have completed a magnificent bloom and linger like drunk women at the end of a party, voluptuous past repair, faded, sick with their own perfume." The ...

No One Tells Everything

3 reviews
Rae Meadows

Macadam Cage Pub, 2008

dark but oh so beautiful ... a must read
This is such a unique, darkly compelling yet beautiful story. It goes to all the terrifying, lonely, alienated places we all fear and avoid with all of our might. A woman with a seemingly 'normal' life - a good job, a nice family - is captivated by a young man accused of murder. She is obviously on the edge - she drinks too much, doesn't have any friends, engages in promiscuous and dangerous sex. ...

Awesome

1 review
Jack Pendarvis

Macadam Cage Pub, 2008

This is the little story of one heck of a giant.
Despite the misinformation in the Publishers Weekly review above, which I found overly cute, Pendarvis is NOT a YA author and AWESOME is most definitely NOT a young adult book. It's hilarious and strange, and bawdy, and weird, and over the top, and off the rails. It's a tall, tall tale, rather like a Paul Bunyan whopper filtered through the consciousness of a snarky modern lout in his ...

All Will Be Revealed

7 reviews
Robert Anthony Siegel

Macadam Cage Pub, 2008

Even better than his first novel.
A photographer who refuses to see people as anything more than the raw material for pictures. A spirit medium who has come to doubt the reality of her conversations with the dead. A deceased polar explorer who cannot quite bring himself to regret the journey that killed him. A disappointed lover who trains a performing bear to read minds. These are the characters that people the novel All Will Be ...

Judgment Day (Mike Daley Mystery)

8 reviews
Sheldon Siegel

Macadam Cage Pub, 2008

Race to the End!
This is one of the better Sheldon entries in the Michael Daley series. In this one Mike must race against the clock to save a "disreputable" lawyer from a date with the executioner. All the usual characters are back (Roosevelt, Pete, Rosie, Nick Hanson) and it climaxes with Mike hammering witnesses while improvising his strategy in front of the judge. Those familiar with the series will give ...

Bloodthirsty

20 reviews
Marshall Karp

Macadam Cage Pub, 2008

Great read!
Karp has followed up Rabbit Factory with another exciting story which is superbly written with a lot of laughs along the way. I couldn't put it down.

Machine

1 review
Peter Adolphsen

Macadam Cage Pub, 2008

A mind-bending examination of time, circumstance, and destiny
What does a prehistoric horse that died in the Eocene era have to do with a nine-year-old boy in Austin, Texas, in 1975? In MACHINE, a "story of a speck of matter," it takes Danish author Peter Adolphsen less than 100 pages to explain the seemingly improbable but totally convincing connection. This very short novel starts 55 million years ago when a storm frightens a herd of prehistoric horses ...

Commonwealth

3 reviews
Joey Goebel

Macadam Cage Pub, 2008

Dynamic Characters...
In my opinion this book has it all: phenomenally written, deep, moving story, important, relevant themes insightfully rendered and humor and sadness that often hit at the same time. The book haunted me for days once I closed its last page, which is always the mark of a great piece of art. The most important part of this book is how thoughtful it is. I think in a nation politically polarized ...

The Wait

2 reviews
Frank Turner Hollon

Macadam Cage Pub, 2008

A relentless and glorious page turner
The Wait----which could have easily been called "The Weight" -- is one of the best books I have read in the last ten years. It follows Early Winwood from conception to death, layering bawdy anecdotes over Early's harrowing choices, trying to calculate the value of redemption. Hollon generally writes ambitious, smart, layered novels with the kind of thematic focus that fans of John Updike and ...

Pelican Road

5 reviews
Howard Bahr

Macadam Cage Pub, 2008

A tale of the railroads rings true
Howard Bahr is noted for his novels regarding the american Civil War. His novel, The Year of Jubilo was a New York Times notable book of the year. Now, Mr. Bahr turns his attention to the american railroads in the deep south just before the start of World War 2, and once again, he has written a fine book which captures the era in a very intimate way. Mr. Bahr is an ex railroad man himself, and ...

The Virgin's Guide to Mexico
Eric B. Martin

Macadam Cage Pub, 2008

A novel about crossing the border in the opposite direction: from wealthy, suburban Texas into the wild heart of Mexico. Alma Price is seventeen - she's smart, she's angry, and she's going to Mexico. Her grandfather lives there, or so she thinks, although it's hard to know what's true with a lying mother who raised her among the blond brigade of their rich Texas neighborhood. Sick of suburbia, Alma hops a bus, crosses the border, gets a ...

The Lost Highway

2 reviews
David Adams Richards

Macadam Cage Pub, 2008

Lost about why it's called the Lost Highway
People always use terms like "moral" and "fierce" to describe this writer, but I'd forgotten how long winded and repetitive he could be. A couple of sections were terribly preachy; his own moral theories badly woven into the story. Worst of all, the main character Alex was portrayed as a small town ethics lecturer, but his thoughts and prejudices were akin to those of a person with half his IQ. ...

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