Soft 4.I received a promotional copy through the First Reads program. So a tip of the hat to Megan Ernst and Bloomsbury Publishing.Kennedy's reverence for Coltrane's music is reminiscent of Bill Moody's Looking For Chet Baker. Patrick Bluett is a flawed, though likeable main character. I liked readi...
Unlike other reviewers on this site, I found this book to be engaging, entertaining, an easy read, but also a work that had some cultural depth to it. There aren't a lot of quick and easy reads out there which manage to also include existential debates or references from literature, music, religion...
The main characters of this novel are broken people with a great will to survive and find some happiness yet in their lives. It is an amazing testament to the human spirit. The descriptions of torture were haunting and stop just short of completely graphic leaving the reader to fill in and be quietl...
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