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A review by alexblackreads
Blacktop Wasteland by S.A. Cosby
4.0
I love SA Cosby. Everyone loves SA Cosby. He's just so great. His writing is great, his emotions are great, the characters are great.
And because everyone else already waxes poetic about how amazing he is, I just want to add a note on his sense of place. I'm a local so I recognize a lot of his settings and he's just so amazing with capturing the feeling of the location. It's like I can see where his characters are at all times, and how the setting changes and influences them. I love it, and doubly so that it's set near me.
I don't know what these books are missing for me. For whatever reason, I stop about halfway through every time I read one. Like I get bored maybe? But I'm not really bored. But then when I do pick up the final half, I demolish it and love the whole thing. It's such a weird experience because I don't usually put books down like that.
My favorite thing is the emotion. For all that it's an action thriller with a lot of bang bang murder, it's also a discussion of humanity. At its core, this book is a character study of Beauregard, both who he is and who he wants to be. I loved the ending. It was the perfect ending.
Anyway, this book is great. If you like thrillers, you probably already have SA Cosby on your list, but you should add him if you don't. Everything he writes is fantastic and I'm so looking forward to reading his next book soon.
And because everyone else already waxes poetic about how amazing he is, I just want to add a note on his sense of place. I'm a local so I recognize a lot of his settings and he's just so amazing with capturing the feeling of the location. It's like I can see where his characters are at all times, and how the setting changes and influences them. I love it, and doubly so that it's set near me.
I don't know what these books are missing for me. For whatever reason, I stop about halfway through every time I read one. Like I get bored maybe? But I'm not really bored. But then when I do pick up the final half, I demolish it and love the whole thing. It's such a weird experience because I don't usually put books down like that.
My favorite thing is the emotion. For all that it's an action thriller with a lot of bang bang murder, it's also a discussion of humanity. At its core, this book is a character study of Beauregard, both who he is and who he wants to be. I loved the ending. It was the perfect ending.
Anyway, this book is great. If you like thrillers, you probably already have SA Cosby on your list, but you should add him if you don't. Everything he writes is fantastic and I'm so looking forward to reading his next book soon.