I've read all of John Horst's novels and I'm a fan. Why? The guy writes good stories; well plotted and like the title says, with vivid imagery. But let's talk for a moment about John's forte. No one can read a Horst novel and criticize his characters. It's like he knows them personally, and not just on the printed page. It doesn't seem like he's created them, but that they actually lived! As I go through his books, I'm thinking, I want to go visit the grave sites of his characters, because surely they're buried somewhere.
Allingham is a man, not a place. When you're done with this book, you simply cannot imagine that he hadn't lived...or that he lives right now. The same is true of the entire cast. The gamblers and whores and politicians - some would say are pretty much the same thing - all come alive.
Is the book perfect? Well, I'm an old school writer who believes in "one scene, one point of view." So, no I wouldn't say it's perfect. But I refuse to rate a book based on my own bias. I rate it on how it made me feel when it was done, minor irritations aside. Just as family gatherings will often have a few rough edges, so too do many Indie books, but at the end of the family gathering we leave with a new appreciation for the characters in our lives who have been indelibly imprinted on us. John takes characters from where ever he finds the inspiration, and makes them family! I find I "want" them to be happy; to succeed. That's a huge talent in a writer.
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