Nuts To You

I am astonished that a book like this has not achieved more success. The long pitch alone is worth the price of admission. The writing style is slick and well suited to the genre and the characters are very real. I do not have time to read the complete book right now but if it continues the way it has started, it is something I shall want to get my teeth into in due course.

Best wishes Philip John

Hi Michael.

Funny, funny. Very clever wit, particularly the comment about the man being 38 but only if you are dyslexic. Your protagonist's outlook is positive and his finding humor in everything makes him likeable. His cynicle comments reek of truth. For instance when concluding the bagel man might bring more than bagel, and the husband's trophy wife probably doesn't work out of habit, and he married his wife because of her breasts. The six months/ten years comment is funny. Clever and entertaining.

Shelved. Best wishes.

Janet Marie - Spirit Prisoners.

I read the first few chapters and there’s a lovely smooth flow to the narrative here at the start. The potted biography rather spoils that and takes you out of the story, information about the character would be better fed in gradually rather than dumped all in one go. I felt that kind of derailed things and it didn’t really get back on track until the scene with the cops in chapter five.

Too self-consciously Chandleresque in places perhaps, but an entertaining read nonetheless and scores you a slot on my bookshelf.