What’s it really like to have your identity robbed from you? In William Boyd’s Ordinary Thunderstorms, it’s evident that your life can change fast….too fast….if this unfortunate happening finds you.
Ordinary Thunderstorms is a tense crime drama set in the streets (and understreets) of London. There is no “warming up” and getting set up into the story. By the time the first chapter ends, you are thrust head-first into a harrowing and devastating situation along with the main character, Adam Kindred, a self-respecting climatologist.
A chance meeting of a stranger and then, moments later, the witness of that stranger’s post-murder scene (and subsequent death), plunges Kindred into a place where he really does not want to be. Yet he’s going…he has to…and his journey into safety takes him straight into hiding, namely, into the underground of the European city.
He is moved effortlessly from a place of status and security to somewhere he’s never been…even to the point of begging for basic needs. He has lost everything he’s worked for….even the basic rights of every human being. He comes across a varied flock of unusual and eclectic characters as he travels on to a seemingly unknown point.
The story touches on the corruption of large pharmaceutical firms, the dishonesty that looms and the secretive games that are played within the darkest shadows of the corporate world.
I found this book enjoyable to read, like most other crime dramas I’ve read, yet it felt a little slow at times. I did enjoy learning more about a part of the world that I don’t know much about, as well as getting a very different perspective from a “man on the run” than is usually seen.
You can order Boyd’s novel Ordinary Thunderstorms from HarperCollins for $26.99, or look for it wherever new books are sold.
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Cindi (2 years ago)
Another HarperCollins book I would love to sink my teeth into is: Pirate Latitudes
by Michael Crichton!
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Ann F (2 years ago)
I would like to read Gator A-Go-Go by Tim Dorsey
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Alicia Webster (2 years ago)
I would also like to read The Economics of Integrity:From Dairy Farmers to Toyota, How Wealth Is Built on Trust and What That Means for Our Future by Anna Bernasek.
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Andria (2 years ago)
I’d like to read A Devil to Play
ed (2 years ago)
i would like to read this one!
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janeh (2 years ago)
Little Bird of Heaven by Joyce Carol Oates
DeeAnn S (2 years ago)
Shadow Tag by Louise Erdrich looks interesting. Thanks.
Michelle (2 years ago)
“The 10 Things You Need to Eat”
By Anahad O’Connor, Dave Lieberman
Would love to read LOTS of these books!
Winning Readings (2 years ago)
Looks like an interesting book!
I’d like to read Not Without Hope…
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Jemima (2 years ago)
This book looks great, but I would also love to get lost in The Maria Korp Case: The Woman In The Boot Story, by Carly Crawford
julie L (2 years ago)
Making Toast by Roger B
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Wendy (2 years ago)
Baking with Julia
Linda Kish (2 years ago)
There are so many. I think I’d go with Among the Great Apes.
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Benita (2 years ago)
I’d like to read First Drop of Crimson.
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Renee Borders (2 years ago)
I’d like to read Horns by Joe Hill. Actually, there are so many I’d like to read!
evelyn (2 years ago)
sounds great
Carol M (2 years ago)
I would like to read Hush by Kate White.
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Carol M (2 years ago)
I already subscribe to Muse Reviews feed.
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Rachel C (2 years ago)
The Pioneer Woman Cooks is on my “to read” list. Also The Lacuna is a GREAT book if anybody’s looking for a recommendation!
Wendy M (2 years ago)
Brava Valentine sounds like another good read.
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amy (2 years ago)
this one sounds great http://browseinside.harpercollins.com/index.aspx?isbn13=9780061725371&biWidgetID=10020&pid=00000000&WT.mc_id=00000000__10020 The fifth servant
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Sarah (2 years ago)
I’d like to read The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver.
Erma H (2 years ago)
I’d love to read Black Magic Sanction
By Kim Harrison.
sarah (2 years ago)
i want to read a devil to play!
karen (2 years ago)
I’d like to read The 10 Things You Need to Eat By Anahad O’Connor, Dave Lieberman. Thanks.
Jason (2 years ago)
I would also love to read The Breach By Patrick Lee
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Heidi V. (2 years ago)
I would love to read Horns by Joe Hill.
Marc (2 years ago)
Too many great books to chose from to have an out and out favorite but ‘Hot for Words’ caught my eye and could be helpful when doing writing of my own.
Daniel M (2 years ago)
the alchemist looks good
Ed Nemmers (2 years ago)
“Hornito” by Mike Albo!
renee (2 years ago)
I’d like to read House Made of Dawn
By N. Scott Momaday
Cassie M (2 years ago)
I’d like to read If You Have to Cry, Go Outside.
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Lisa R (2 years ago)
The 10 Things You Need to Eat
shawna (2 years ago)
I would like to read The Maria Korp Case: The Woman In The Boot Story
DanV (2 years ago)
I’d also like The Lacuna
by Barbara Kingsolver
Nancye Davis (2 years ago)
I would like to read: “Before I Fall”
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