Stanley Mitchell moved to a small town with his family, who has just decided to take a drive-in management. During one summer of his pre-adolescence finds herself embroiled in the biggest situations that would lead him to a sudden and early maturity.
Frankly I expected better.
the end goal of the borough, the novel is not a story to tell as a "situation". And the situation in question is America after the war, those fifties still full of racial prejudice and infighting in the population (almost always struggle between poor, one might say).
why the discovery of some magic love letters mysterious, and everything that goes with it too remains in the background. In the main story, as if this were not enough, other stories are juxtaposed side, who do nothing but fatten the novel without ever adding anything particularly tasty. What follows is a development of the plot slow and cumbersome. To judge by the standards of a thriller, its structure is very weak.
Despite the quality of writing, the novel suffers from too much the first part boring.
Since the mid-on, the pace accelerates, but the result is still lackluster. The finish is good, but certainly can not raise too didactic narrative, which would provide a snapshot of a particular historical period (and more or less succeeds) but did not associate a great story to tell.
Again Lansdale gives his best in action scenes.
Overall not a bad novel, but if it's worth the ticket price is only on a few well-chosen elements (especially the characters and dialogue, even if they sometimes seemed to me a bit 'too obvious and unnecessary) .
Bah, I expect better from Lansdale, but then I just can not not give him a narrow enough.
Of course, if I read this book before those of Hap & Leonard series certainly would not have continued to be interested in this author.
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