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Come Out Tonight
Henry Jackman, a pharmacist’s assistant working in a run-down drugstore in New York City, wakes up one morning to find his girl friend unconscious on his living room rug. Someone has attacked her. He calls an ambulance, and manages to get her to the hospital alive but comatose. There she progresses from coma to vegetative state, never quite becoming conscious... until the...more
ebook, 237 pages
Published
September 11th 2011
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FULL DISCLOSURE: I received this book for free during promotional sale.
Allow me to send half of the potential readers packing right now: "Come Out Tonight" is written in first person. I know this turns a lot of people off, and I'm sure that they're not even reading this anymore, so we move on to why first person can turn people off: The author has the occasional trouble grappling with "voice". Though I respect the growth of the characters over the course of the book,...more
FULL DISCLOSURE: I received this book for free during promotional sale.
Allow me to send half of the potential readers packing right now: "Come Out Tonight" is written in first person. I know this turns a lot of people off, and I'm sure that they're not even reading this anymore, so we move on to why first person can turn people off: The author has the occasional trouble grappling with "voice". Though I respect the growth of the characters over the course of the book,...more
Reading a book by a new author is rather like shooting a shotgun. Some of the pellets are going to hit the target, some of them are going to go wide. Very wide.
The premise is good ... a researcher specializing in a new non-narcotic sleeping medication is brutally attacked while her nebbish boyfriend sleeps in the next room ... This all happens within the first couple of pages, so I'm not letting any cats out of any bags.
The story is told by switching POV between the boyfriend and the detective...more
The premise is good ... a researcher specializing in a new non-narcotic sleeping medication is brutally attacked while her nebbish boyfriend sleeps in the next room ... This all happens within the first couple of pages, so I'm not letting any cats out of any bags.
The story is told by switching POV between the boyfriend and the detective...more
COME OUT TONIGHT was written from two perspectives, Henry Jackman and Donna Sirken. Henry woke up to find his girlfriend lying on the floor, covered in blood, he was not sure what happened. Donna was the detective assigned to the case. She found Henry’s story unbelievable. I was definitely hooked from the beginning but I did find it predictable at times. The characters were engaging and there was a few twists which kept the suspense going. Ms Rozanski definitely did her research on the workings...more
Come Out Tonight is written from the perspective of two characters, Henry and Donna. Henry is a pretty common guy, working at a small pharmacy, not spectacular looking, in love with Sherry, who comes to his apartment in the middle of the night and has a fancy schmancy job at a not for profit company that invents new drugs. Donna is an investigator who gets the case of who hurt Sherry in Henry's apartment, leaving her in a coma state. Lots of things don't add up as to why Henry didn't hear anythi...more
This was an intense story that hooked me before I even opened the book. Bonnie's description discussed current events where real people in real life have woken up in jail after having taken the drug Ambien to help them sleep. I was fascinated about the possibilities with the topic and eagerly entered the world Bonnie set up with such care. From the first paragraph, I figured out where the story would probably go, but I didn't see where the victim fit into the story. Bonnie handled the topic with...more
When I first read the description I thought that this could be a good mystery. I did not expect such a well written and thought out story. The book gets into details that obviously required a great deal of research. The characters are well-rounded and seem very real. I liked the way that both main characters were able to tell the story through their own points of view in opposite chapters. While sometimes this may confuse readers, the voices of both Henry and Donna are unique so there should be...more
Though I don't sleep walk, my children have been known to. In fact when my oldest daughter was around 7 we had to install adult head height chain locks because she would often try to sleepwalk out through the front door. Luckily I am both an insomniac and a light sleeper so she never got far.
Rozanski's novel, Come Out Tonight, explores the darker side of somnambulism, inspired by the Ambien scandal. Pharmacist assistant, Henry Jackman is horrified when he discovers his lover, Sherry, beaten alm...more
This was a good story. Had a good idea who was at fault from the beginning, but enough twists throughout and at the end to make you think of some other possible endings as you read. Would have liked a little less of the double story telling from both sides. Didn't think there was a need for much of it.
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Bonnie is an author and prize-winning playwright currently living in New Jersey. Born in Queens, New York, she has lived in Hong Kong, Canada, and all over the US. With degrees in Psychology and Artificial Intelligence, always fascinated by the human mind, Bonnie writes on matters touching on consciousness and the human condition.
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