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A review by auntieg0412
Desperation Road by Michael Farris Smith
5.0
I waited more than 24 hours before I tried to write this review, but I still don’t know what to say. The stories of Russell, Maben, and Larry are wonderfully told: three desperate souls who had made bad choices — sometimes the same bad choices over and over again — and were seeking some form of redemption, if you will, some way to ease their hurt.
I felt a sense of desperation myself, so invested in the characters’ lives that I actually had to stop reading for a while because I was filled with foreboding about what might happen to them. That is truly the mark of good writing, isn’t it, when the reader forgets that the characters aren’t real?
I felt a sense of desperation myself, so invested in the characters’ lives that I actually had to stop reading for a while because I was filled with foreboding about what might happen to them. That is truly the mark of good writing, isn’t it, when the reader forgets that the characters aren’t real?