Genre:
Suspense/Romance
Description:
“The Road
Trip to Hell and Back
Dr. Noah
Severson, veterinarian and reluctant environmentalist, must expose
the devastation unleashed on the environment by hydraulic fracturing,
“fracking,” of the subsurface shale by a greedy oil company and
its silent partner, the Environmental Protection Agency.
Victoria
Winslow, heiress and socialite, lost in the shadow cast by her
legendary mother, seeks her true identity on the open road, behind
the wheel of her father’s new Jaguar.
Thomas,
thirteen-year-old recently orphaned runaway, searches for the brother
who was stripped from him by the man pretending to be his uncle.
Mule,
English mastiff and unwitting smuggler, wants relief from the agony
caused by the million dollars’ worth of drug-filled condoms
clogging his digestive tract.
Ricky,
four-year-old kidnapped orphan, waits for his brother to rescue him
from the outlaw biker who kidnapped him.”
Author:
“Grace
Jelsnik earned her M.A. in English with an emphasis on creative
writing at the University of South Dakota. She lives in North Dakota
with her husband of fifteen years, their three children, two dogs,
and three cats.”
Learn more
about Ms. Jelsnik on her Amazon Author page or follow her on
Facebook.
Appraisal:
Road
Trip throws multiple
characters together, none of them having prior connections, each with
goals or purposes of their own. Victoria is trying to find herself.
Noah is trying to expose the environmental damage caused by fracking
in the Dakotas, while brothers Thomas and Ricky are trying to keep
what is left of their family together. The author manages to weave
these unrelated stories together into a coherent whole with plenty of
suspense, tension, and a touch of romance. Definitely a book I'd
recommend.
Format/Typo
Issues:
No
significant issues
Rating:
***** Five Stars
Reviewed
by: BigAl
Approximate
word count: 80-85,000 words
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