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Gabe's Plan (2012)

by Andrew Stock(Favorite Author)

3.34 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1480058556 (ISBN13: 9781480058552)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Createspace

review 1: Wow. I haven't read one this bad in a long time. It almost hurts me to rip it apart because there really was potential for a great story. Let's start with the plot...it was actually good! A DA with the power and know-how to ruin someone's life and a female friend to lay the accusation? Awesome.And that was the only good thing about this book. Pet peeve number 1 - missing words! Simple ones like "of" and misspellings made it easy to figure out what was supposed to be said but it's just stupid.Pet peeve number 2 - foul language. Don't get me wrong, I'm no priss nor prude and I really enjoy a well-placed f, bomb. However, it seems the author just wanted a little shock value so he placed whatever wherever and it was juvenile.Pet peeve number 3 - stupid "sex" scenes. Again, I t... morehink the author was going for shocking but he delivered course, raunchy, ridiculous "romances".Pet peeve number 4 - disjointed storyline. The blurb suggests Gabe's mental health is faltering. Really, he's crazy and hallucinating...apparently just like the author when he wrote this book. Most scenes weren't completed before he jumped to another marijuana-induced jumble of words.All in all, it took me almost a week to read this super short hunk of junk. 5 days of my awesome life I can never get back.I received this book for free in exchange for an honest review. Too honest?
review 2: Gabe’s Plan is a freaking fablous read. Looking at the Amazon description I expected the novel to be romance. In actual fact it was more in line with the whackadoo style that was Mark Childress’ Crazy in Alabama. Don’t get me wrong, the subject matter couldn’t be more different from the 1993 novel but there’s a feeling of sameness that I loved. These novels that go where others won’t are so rare and do the impossible – they make you cheer for characters in a scenario where there’s not a single truly good person. They are all damaged folks doing a lot of the wrong things but so entertaining as they do them.I was not surprised, reading Stock’s bio, that he’s a screenwriter. Gabe’s Plan has a feeling of being written for the screen and is a movie I’d personally love to see. Set in the wake of 2004 election, Gabe lost his leg in the war and sees George Bush as the direct reason. He was a victim of a suicide bomber with whom halfway through the novel he imagines a romantic relationship. Her green eyes called to him but she was so young and he posits that he would have to enroll her in the local high school which he’s sure doesn’t have an ESL program. The absurdity of the moment is perfectly written and characteristic (though not key) of the character that is Gabe throughout the novel and what makes him so entertaining to read. less

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