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Red Right Return: A Buck Reilly Adventure (2012)

by John H. Cunningham(Favorite Author)

3.97 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1604947047 (ISBN13: 9781604947045)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Wheatmark

series

Buck Reilly

review 1: I really wanted to like this book, but it's a bit of a mess. I would have enjoyed it more if it didn't include quite so many Key West cliches, and not quite so many misplaced commas and apostrophes, and if it didn't refer to the sweet smell of hibiscus and bougainvillea (because those flowers rarely have discernable scents, and there are dozens of other flowering trees that perfume the Key West air), and if Buck Reilly were either an everyman or a superman, or at least balance his superpowers with some humility, because he's kind of insufferable when he's being a superhero.
review 2: It is hard to believe this was John H. Cunningham's first novel. The plot was complex. There was a lot of background research ranging from Santeria to Cuba to Hemingway, but it w... moreas sprinkled across the arc of the story. He avoided the long tedious background information passages one slogs through in authors like Clancy. The characters were adequately developed, but I'm hoping that they will be better developed in future works. The pace begins quite slowly as we settle into the protagonist's situation in Key West. I loved Betty, his Grumman Widgeon. I own a Margaritaville mug with her likeness on it as Betty is supposed to have been bought from Jimmy Buffett. In fact, Betty is the best drawn character in the story. We learn something of what landed Buck on Key West and set the baseline from which his character develops. About two thirds of the way into it, the pace quickens until near the end when it becomes a page turner. I liked that the pace was given room to build. If, like me, you enjoy MacDonald's Travis McGee, Randy Wayne White's Doc Ford, or Tom Corcoran's Alex Rutledge, you ought to give the "new kid on the block" a shot. I don't think you'll regret having done so. less

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