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A review by rembrandt1881
Cemetery Road by Gar Anthony Haywood
3.0
I was looking for a typical 'airport thriller' so I gave this a try. This doesn't quite fit the bill but it is a mystery and at the end it picks up steam.
For me it's a bit too Noir for the mood I was looking for. The story is fine and having to remember when it starts the characters are so young helps because I wasn't thinking the reason that our main character comes back into town wasn't as serious as the character thinks it is. I'm still not sure that Haywood made it convincing that the inciting incident would have come back to them.
The mood is pretty dour the entire time and the main character Handy has some other secrets that I guess are supposed to add to depth but for me, I didn't care about them. He also has his 'thing' which is fixing old stuff but it never adds to the story at all.
The story wraps up though and like I said before once it gets rolling it's not too bad, but I do think the set up drags for my tastes because of the style more than the story itself.
For me it's a bit too Noir for the mood I was looking for. The story is fine and having to remember when it starts the characters are so young helps because I wasn't thinking the reason that our main character comes back into town wasn't as serious as the character thinks it is. I'm still not sure that Haywood made it convincing that the inciting incident would have come back to them.
The mood is pretty dour the entire time and the main character Handy has some other secrets that I guess are supposed to add to depth but for me, I didn't care about them. He also has his 'thing' which is fixing old stuff but it never adds to the story at all.
The story wraps up though and like I said before once it gets rolling it's not too bad, but I do think the set up drags for my tastes because of the style more than the story itself.