eBook Review: Tornado Bait by Amy Eastlake
"Tornado Bait" by Amy Eastlake is a marvelous murder mystery novel. The setting is very unconventional in that most of the action takes place in a shabby Texas trailer park. "Tina", our protagonist is a 2o-something woman who manages the park, a body is found in the waste tank of one of her trailers and the police think she might just be the murderer. Tina launches her own investigation to clear her name, only she does not know where to begin or really, how to investigate.Written in the first person, our narrator Tina, has a wise-cracking "Philip Marlow" type wit. I found myself often chuckling along with her observations. But the humor does not get in the way of the mystery and that is quite an accomplishment for any writer, but Amy Eastlake brings it off with style: I was entertained, I had empathy for the characters, the setting was great and the writing was well polished. Amy Eastlake is a good writer.
My only criticism is I would have liked to have the loose ends tied up a little better at the very end of the book, but that is a minor thing. The main mystery is resolved in good order. I recommend Tornado Bait, and Amy Eastlake's other ebooks are on my buy list as well.
Buy Tornado Bait at: BooksforaBuck.com, Fictionwise or eBookwise.
3 Comments:
I need your advice!
I want to buy ebookwise for reading ebooks that I download from free online libraries such as PG, lib.ru, etc - so will it be good for this purpose?
Because I am certainly not planning on BUYING my books when there is literally millions of great books available free online!
So can I use ebookwaise for reading .txt and .html files or is there something that would prevent me from simply downloading an ebook in .txt format and uploading it to my ebookwise?
Thanks for the review of Tornado Bait. I'm glad you liked it.
--unabashed plug--did you know there's a sequel, The Chicken Rescue League, also available from Fictionwise.com?
Hi anonymous,
Sorry I wasn't checking for comments so I'm late in replying.
The there is library software that you can buy for $10 from eBookwise that will convert .txt .rb and html files for reading on the Ebookwise device if you have a Windows computer. There is also a free online conversion thing that works with all computers (Win, Mac.). For the price the eBookwise reader is a good value, I read all sorts of free ebooks on it.
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