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Murder in the E.R.: A Detective Capella Crime Novel
27 February 2017
Entertaining
I am a 12th grade high school English teacher with a special love for classic Oriental poetry and all literature romance. A former colleague and old friend (who is a lover of all things Jackie Holiday) recommended this piece to me on a whim, entrusting me with his personal copy. It was perhaps the most pleasant surprise I have received in all of 2014!
Holiday's work rises like the phoenix out of the pits of today's new novels, which are, frankly, usually populated with pages drier than the Sahara. Not so with this one!
Written with raw, gritty, and original language, Holiday does not only take you for an armchair adventure- it feels as though her characters have leapt from the pages and kicked the chair right out from underneath you, landing you right into scenes of pure adrenaline, pulse-pounding fear, and the throes of love. Beneath the surface of the words and paragraphs, there are themes and symbols that I have found to be part of a deeply intellectual treatise on the world we live in today. The complexities of this piece have ensured that this book has found its way onto the summer reading list for next year!
My old friend who lent me this book is never going to see it returned. Even a fellow teacher in the Math Department, who abhors reading anything longer than three pages and has the literary intellect of a chicken, returned this book to me with a big smile and an incredibly enthusiastic and rather scholarly review! My copy now sits in a proud space in the section of my personal mini-library with all of my favorite modern works such as those by Satrapi, MacLaverty, and others.
This is a truly stellar piece by Holiday and I will certainly be looking for other works by this author in the future!
11 December 2015
Excellent read.
Great book. Lifts you up, brings you down and pulls you back up again. Great flow with lots of adventure. The characters are real and likable. I couldn't put it down. Finished it in two nights. The parts on the sea were accurate and thoroughly believable. Liked the female protagonist, Maureen, very much. Great read.
27 February 2017
A wonderful surprise
Read this. As simple as that. I took a chance on this book thinking that it was something original and new. I've always loved a good coming of age story, and I had never even considered reading one in a setting like marine salvage. So I took the opportunity to read this.
I was right, it was new. And it was great. When I was reading it seemed to me this was a book where the author had finally found the story they really wanted to write. The characters were heartfelt and real. For everyone in the book, I could find someone in my own life who was just too similar. The town was the one I grew up in, the main character the kid I knew down the street. Despite this recognition though, these characters do amazing things and expand the story in great ways. As for the story itself, I loved the originality of it. I had never read a story on this particular subject (naval salvage) that served as the background of the plot, and so I found myself learning about a whole new world as I entered the characters lives. It made the experience even better. Every chapter sucked me in more, and by the end I was rushing to finish without even having realized this book had captivated me so.