PSA: Descriptions can be kind of graphic and over the top gory.
You’re probably thinking, Meghan your last book review also included a warning and you said you needed to read something lighter, and I did I promise. Just didn’t write a review (Born Standing Up by Steve Martin in case you were curious). Plus this is a different kind of warning, instead of me warning that your heart is about to break for human kind (which it might in this as well) it’s predominantly a warning for how graphic the description is related to human injury and death. Happy Times. Happy Days. But read this book! I knew from pretty much the beginning that it was going to be a solid 4-4.5/5.
“Tears ran from his eyes and stung his cheeks. Tears for his son. Tears for his wife. Tears for the little girl they had to raise. Tears for who they were and what they all had lost. Each drop felt like it was slicing his face open like a razorblade”.
Razorblade Tears
Two ex-con men are shocked to realize how much they have in common when they first meet since from the outside they have very different lives. One is black. One is white. One is running a successful landscaping company. One is drinking his troubles away. Both of them have sons they no longer speak to. Their sons who are married to each other. Their sons who were just found murdered. Ike Randolph and Buddy Lee meet at their sons’ funerals and begin to notice that they share more in common than one might think. Banding together to seek revenge for their sons and find out who killed them, they confront their own prejudices about those who may not share the same color skin or love different people.
“I ain’t gonna lie and say I get you, because I don’t. I can’t even pretend to know what it might be like to be you. But if all this has taught me one thing, it’s that it ain’t about me and what I get. It’s about letting people be who they are. And being who you are shouldn’t be a death sentence”.
Razorblade Tears
If you like action, this book was packed full of it. You never knew what theirs or the killers next move was going to be. Crosby definitely made sure you knew every last detail, even when there were times you probably could’ve passed and just got the cliff notes during certain fighting scenes. But you saw from start to finish how much these two fathers grew and the character development was huge. This book definitely surprised me on how much I ended up enjoying it.
Until Next Time, The Library Abroad
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