Genre: Thriller/Suspense
Description:
“Walking home on a summer evening, Tristan's eleven-year-old
goddaughter runs ahead to hide and scare the group. A warm breeze filters
through the city streets. She turns down an alley and tucks behind an old
dumpster unaware of the stranger. Tristan's best friend, James, jogs ahead of
the group to catch his daughter at her own game.
James reaches the alley and turns the corner. The stranger draws a
knife. In the seconds it takes for James to collapse, the worlds of those
closest to him change forever.
Tristan becomes Jenavieve's guardian. He makes her breakfast, argues
with the PTA, and teaches her to cook. He also learns to disappear into crowds,
lines the trunk of his car with plastic, and quietly begins hunting a killer
that no one has been able to find.
Sharp, warm, and darkly funny, Show Yourself builds to a
conclusion that will make you hold your breath. Shane Pollard's debut asks not
just who did it, but what you would be willing to become to make it right.
This is not a revenge story. It's a story about what it means to be
alive.”
Author:
“Shane Pollard decided at a very young age that he was going to work
for NASA. But when an accident in his teens forced him to take time off from
school to recover, his plans changed. He instead took the incredibly
straightforward path of chasing his own curiosity half-way around the world,
and back, a few times. Throughout his travels, Shane taught sailing, English,
illustration, and critical thinking. He sold his photography and paintings, and
pushed pixels and words as a graphic designer and copy writer. He mixed drinks
professionally, spent a few years underwater as a commercial Divemaster, did
technical shenanigans for an electric boat company, became an engineer for a 3D
printing company, and wrote a novel that he is currently trying to convince
people to read.”
Appraisal:
This story gives the reader lots to think about, wondering how you’d
react if you found yourself in a comparable situation to what the protagonist
of this story, Tristan, did. There are multiple threads that explore different
aspects of what Tristan and his goddaughter Jenavieve go through after the
murder of Jenavieve's father James, and Tristan subsequently becoming her
guardian. Not to mention wondering who murdered James, whether others are in
danger with him uncaught, and who he might be. The police don’t seem to be
getting anywhere, maybe James can figure it out. But if he does, then what? It
all makes for an intense story that I couldn’t put down.
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FYI:
Some adult language.
Format/Typo
Issues:
No significant issues.
Rating: *****
Five Stars
Reviewed
by: BigAl
Approximate word count: 45-50,000 words
