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My Nation is Green
"Yitzchak calls us - me - by my name, Travanis. It's Travanis, that is my name, not Trevor, or Treyvon, or Tractor. Do you believe me? It's what he calls me. It's even on my State identification papers, along with my address, my eye color, my height, and maybe even more information. It's all legitimate and none of it has been forged. I am telling you reality. Believe me.
The problem with the rest of them is that they don't follow the way. You know what it is, right? That ideal. It's your fundamental value that you necessarily have as a human being. They tried to take it. Can't let it. Won't.
All I - we - ever wanted was to have him in our arms. It's not enough that they fail to see themselves for who they are. We are many."
A character-centric thriller set in Chicago, My Nation is Green is an action-packed popcorn novel. With unique characters and relationships, plentiful explosions, and cops named Dixon Malth and Louis Canon, it's the perfect combination of intelligent dialogue and mindless entertainment.
The problem with the rest of them is that they don't follow the way. You know what it is, right? That ideal. It's your fundamental value that you necessarily have as a human being. They tried to take it. Can't let it. Won't.
All I - we - ever wanted was to have him in our arms. It's not enough that they fail to see themselves for who they are. We are many."
A character-centric thriller set in Chicago, My Nation is Green is an action-packed popcorn novel. With unique characters and relationships, plentiful explosions, and cops named Dixon Malth and Louis Canon, it's the perfect combination of intelligent dialogue and mindless entertainment.
191 pages, Kindle Edition
First published October 14, 2012
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January 5, 2013
This isn't a terrible book. I did finish it. There's potential. But I don't recommend it.
The three shill reviews on Amazon built the book up far too much for it to ever be satisfying. I can't even be bothered specifically critiquing the plot, but this is not a "page turning action thriller". Also, the blurb promises "plentiful explosions". There are zero (count them: zero) explosions. The anarchic lesbian shrieking "Women don’t need you! Women don’t need men!” was a groan-out-load, ugh, please *eyeroll* moment.
I do think the author has potential; enough that I would try another book by him. I really liked Travanis and his Head, and I want more with this character, which might happen, as the end of this book is left open. Travanis's use of language saved this book from a 1-star.
Personal nitpick: I swear I didn't know - I didn't even pick this to read - but one of the MCs is a Kiwi like me. Clark has the vernacular turn of phrase and rythym uncannily perfect. Ah, the romance of New Zealand, those sweet words every girl wants to hear: "Wanna root?" However, the Maori isn't right. Moana shouldn't tell her mother that she knows "being whakapapa" is important to her; she means 'being whanau' is important to her (being a family tree vs. being family). Titiro whakamua means look forward, physically: titiro ki mua is look forward in time, look ahead. Also, vodka? Nothing like manuka honey. Nothing.
Otherwise, Moana is sweet as.
The three shill reviews on Amazon built the book up far too much for it to ever be satisfying. I can't even be bothered specifically critiquing the plot, but this is not a "page turning action thriller". Also, the blurb promises "plentiful explosions". There are zero (count them: zero) explosions. The anarchic lesbian shrieking "Women don’t need you! Women don’t need men!” was a groan-out-load, ugh, please *eyeroll* moment.
I do think the author has potential; enough that I would try another book by him. I really liked Travanis and his Head, and I want more with this character, which might happen, as the end of this book is left open. Travanis's use of language saved this book from a 1-star.
Personal nitpick: I swear I didn't know - I didn't even pick this to read - but one of the MCs is a Kiwi like me. Clark has the vernacular turn of phrase and rythym uncannily perfect. Ah, the romance of New Zealand, those sweet words every girl wants to hear: "Wanna root?" However, the Maori isn't right. Moana shouldn't tell her mother that she knows "being whakapapa" is important to her; she means 'being whanau' is important to her (being a family tree vs. being family). Titiro whakamua means look forward, physically: titiro ki mua is look forward in time, look ahead. Also, vodka? Nothing like manuka honey. Nothing.
Otherwise, Moana is sweet as.
April 30, 2013
I read this because a friend of mine is a friend of the author, and it was free on kindle. I think I agree with the other reviewer that it isn't a terrible book. I liked it more than she did, however. I thought there was in fact an explosion (at the very end), and it's the author's way of making characters I like that end up dying gruesomely that made me appreciate the book the most I guess. A+ for effort though, I would read another assuming he writes again. He has potential.
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