A beautiful novel about life as a mobster (in 1940s Tampa) and all the contradictions and complications of it. Lehane clearly has an ear for dialogue, and a sense of all the moral and logical and legal compromises the life brings with it. People persist in trying to be moral even as their morality is ruthlessly stomped out of them. There are no good outcomes for anyone, and the ending is like getting shivved.
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Stone Blind by Natalie Haynes
I couldn't tell you when exactly I fell out of love with Greek Myth, but it happened somewhere along the way. This is a book that does...
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A beautiful novel about life as a mobster (in 1940s Tampa) and all the contradictions and complications of it. Lehane clearly has an ear f...
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Well, this was a bit of a disappointment. Not *horrible*, but a bit bland. and with stakes that in the end seemed abruptly lower--in the s...
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This is a novel about people who are broken and not yet stronger at the broken places, though at least the two POVs you can see how and wher...

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