A review by stenaros
Ash Wednesday by Ethan Hawke

3.0

So the problem of being a recognizable actor who has also written a novel is that it's hard to separate the screen persona/actor from the main character, especially if the main character occupies the same general demographic as the author. With Hawke's first novel, I never successfully separated the two people actor/author and main character, which detracted from my enjoyment of said novel. In this novel, I spent the first portion picturing Jimmy as Ethan Hawke, but eventually was able to discard this and wrap myself in the story. Having said all that, I loved the "voice" in this story. It was hard-driving and descriptive, took no prisoners and just kept rolling along until the end came.