Review: East of Denver

East of Denver - excerpt from 2011 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award EntryEast of Denver
by Gregory Hill

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

East of Denver / B004TEYTGO

This is really one of the most beautiful things I've read this year - I actually cried while reading this excerpt. The prose is incredibly intense and has this wonderfully abrupt, matter-of-fact writing style that really fits the setting and adds so much to the overall characterization. The narrator and his father are so real and genuine, and I love that while the narrator worries for his father, he doesn't constantly baby him or talk down to him. Such an incredible job has been done with the anosmia and senility, and I'm impressed at all the little perfect details that really make the story come alive.

The hooks so far are just incredible and are guaranteed to keep the reader up at night. I'm wondering now how Unabelle died, and why no one noticed her - does the poor woman have no family or friends? (All the sadness forever.) And this wrinkle with the bank account being drained heavily and the missing checks is really quite serious, and I'm anxious to know how it will all get resolved. Overall, I really think this excerpt is perfect, and I really wish that I could read so much more.

NOTE: This review is based on a sample excerpt of this book provided through the ABNA contest.

~ Ana Mardoll

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