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Nine Days to Evil by Nancy Glass West. Softcover, 5.5" x 8.5".
Booklocker, P.O.Box 2399, Bangor, ME 04402, USA. Fax: 207-262-5544. Phone: 207-262-9696. E-mail:ngwest@sbcglobal.net: Publication Date 2004. 310 pages, ISBN 0-9747705-0-7. Price $16.95
Official site: http://www.booklocker.com/books/1518.html
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Nine Days to Evil by Nancy Glass West is a compelling mystery that speaks to every woman's unthinkable nightmare - the violent disappearance of her husband and the dawning recognition of betrayal. Meredith Laughlin is portrayed as a naïve, if not stereotypical, upper middle class doctor's wife, freshly enrolled in graduate school when her seemingly perfect husband vanishes in a South Texas thunderstorm. At times Meredith comes across as annoyingly shallow and materialistic but in the end she finds strength and redemption as she gains control of her life.
...Nancy Glass West is a talented spinner of a mysterious tale of deception....She appears to be a lovely and generous woman who takes her writing seriously and works hard at it....
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The title Nine Days to Evil is perplexing since the evil resides in the villain's heart and began before the story opens rather than appearing on the ninth day but that's a minor problem. Nancy Glass West is a talented spinner of a mysterious tale of deception and could even be a good writer if she'd quit trying so hard. The use of elements of Shakespeare's play Othello and basic tenets of abnormal psychology, purportedly themes from Meredith's graduate classes, made the story interesting and convincing. However I found many of the metaphors forced or contrived - "exhaling like a collapsing tent" or "Pressure filled her forehead as though the storm had burst in her head and would rush pell-mell through her body and gush out like water from a hose." James Lee Burke she ain't. Simple words seem to be dumped for less appropriate synonyms that sound perhaps more erudite or highfalutin'.
Nancy Glass West appears to be a lovely and generous woman who takes her writing seriously and works hard at it. But that is the rub. When no one will tell the emperor that he has no clothes, how can he find the opportunity to remedy the situation? Nancy Glass is a diamond in the rough. When she finds her voice, it will be a read worth the money. In the interim, she needs to find a publisher with a good editor.
-Sylvia Tomlinson
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-Sylvia Tomlinson Sylvia Tomlinson is an author, reviewer and publisher. She began her writing career in grade school when she and her sister wrote a handbook for what they called the "Fun Club". Aside from being fun, Sylvia viewed writing as something natural like breathing. She has written a bestseller "Plucked and Burned". She can be contacted at sylvia@redbudpublishing.com |
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