Hardcover, 336 pages
Forge Books
★★★ – Good book; an enjoyable one-time read.
Hey ya’ll, I am returning once again to a life of book reviews being that I have a lot of down-time, and I desperately need some purpose while I wait for grad school to start up.
I initially picked up Bruce Cameron’s The Midnight Plan of the Repo Man because I kept seeing the title in the stacks at the library, and the absurdity of the rhyme just got extremely lodged in my brain.
The novel tracks the life of small town repoman, and hobbyist bookworm, Ruddy McCann. He’s a bit of a down-on-his luck sort of guy, who seems to just be plodding along one day at a time. Rather suddenly, Ruddy begins to hear the voice of a presumed dead realtor. What he and his family consider to be a case of career PTSD (apparently a relatively common repoman risk), turns into a high stakes murder mystery with a very interesting edge.
The language of the novel is pretty simple, which makes it uncomplicated and quite approachable. Its simplicity initially irked me, but I grew accustomed to it,and eventually enjoyed the more authentic small-town, rural feel to it.
For a book that I picked up on a whim due to its catchy title, I quite enjoyed it. I give The Midnight Plan of the Repo Man 3 out of 5 stars. The book surprised me with a unique and interesting plot, and was generally just a pleasure to read.
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