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The Godfather of Kathmandu (Sonchai Jitpleecheep, #4)
Ape House
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
Operation Napoleon
Walking Dead
The Sentimentalists
The Heretic Queen
The Midnight House
Cross Fire
Peony in Love
Absurdistan
Nefertiti
Finding Nouf: A Novel
City of Veils: A Novel
First Daughter
A Place of Hiding
Amagansett
Peter Pan


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Monday, February 28, 2022

"The Winemaker's Son", by C.J. West

                                                                      


Randy Black series book 1

Mr. West has created quite a twisted character in Randy Black and along with a scary personality to give us nightmares. I can’t imagine such an evil man could ever exist...thank goodness this is a storyline right out of the author’s imagination.

It opens in France with a threesome having a tryst in an old farm house when to their surprise the woman’s husband walks in... a fight follows resulting in the death of the man. This is the first move setting the stage for a series of revenge and weird happenings. When things got too hot in France for Randy he flees to USA where he will entertain us with a cat and mouse game that will last throughout the book.

The plot weaves more twists and turns and more layers of bizarre acts. This story has a good blend of intrigue and suspense and grabs us and holds our attention hostage and refuses to let go till the very last page is read. The pacing is short of genius it slowly enmeshed us into evil machinations and erratic behaviours. Randy is clever, vindictive and unpredictable. Did he have a motive behind his action...yes he did and following him is the fun we are into even if it is gruesome at times. The narrative flows well and is vividly said, you can picture every moves.

If you like bad guys that are just too bad to be likeable and good guys that fall prey to the bad guy’s evilness give this book a try.

You will find “The Winemaker’s Son” to be mostly entertaining.

On a side note:

While I was reading this book I had a sense of déjà vu, I was certain that I had read something similar before and to this day this feeling still nags me....

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