Official Kiwi Families Review by Dan Simperingham
The set-up:
The book revolves around a plot within a plot. Autumn, the daughter of a wealthy fund manager gets the ultimate birthday treat of a weekend adventure. The Adventure has a twist, it is a ‘crime scene scenario where Autumn and her friends all play different roles, to use old school yard terminology; ‘goodies and badies’.
But what was to be fun and games turns deadly serious when the some real ‘badies’ turn up and turn the hijack game in the woods into a reality…
I’m liking:
The birthday party adventure has more twists and turns in it than a dozen rattle snakes playing twister. The plot slips down the slope from rich kid happy flirty antics to a bad guy balaclava induced bad hair day faster than a speeding limo down the side of a ravine. Once at the bottom in the murky dark water of fear and terror the intensity of chase doesn’t let up until the very end.
Jo Beckett is a fantastic heroine who happens upon the right people at the right place at the wrong time and in the wrong way, if only for the fierce survival skills of her and her man Gabe and their combined powers of deduction they would have perished with out a doubt.
Autumn, who is a key piece in the puzzle transverses the spectrum of physical mental and emotional challenges through out the story and ultimately has her own metamorphosis through this rude awakening into a new level of personal empowerment, and indignant independence.
Things that made me go hmmmm:
My only reservations about the book is that I went into it expecting a story about a forensic psychiatrist to involve some forensic psychiatry, or at least a touch of passing psychoanalyses whilst dodging the bullets. For example: “He’s shooting at me, perhaps I remind him of his mother!” It didn’t, so I was a little disappointed with that, but that is ok, I will talk that through with my therapist!
The conclusion:
But if you are looking for a no-holds-barred roller coaster ride through a birthday party that travels down through the bitter bile of revenge up through the adrenaline rush of survival and round the bend of bone chilling fear to settle in a homeopathic dose of love and contentedness, look no further this ride will be the gold at the end of “Rainbow’s End” for you.
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Official Kiwi Families Review by Dan Simperingham
The set-up: The book revolves around a plot within a plot. Autumn, the daughter of a
wealthy fund manager gets the ultimate birthday treat of a weekend
adventure. The Adventure has a twist, it is a ‘crime scene scenario
where Autumn and her friends all play different roles, to use old school
yard terminology; ‘goodies and badies’.
But what was to be fun and games turns deadly serious when the some real
‘badies’ turn up and turn the hijack game in the woods into a reality…
I’m liking: The birthday party adventure has more twists and turns in it than a
dozen rattle snakes playing twister. The plot slips down the slope from
rich kid happy flirty antics to a bad guy balaclava induced bad hair day
faster than a speeding limo down the side of a ravine. Once at the
bottom in the murky dark water of fear and terror the intensity of chase
doesn’t let up until the very end.
Jo Beckett is a fantastic heroine who happens upon the right people at
the right place at the wrong time and in the wrong way, if only for the
fierce survival skills of her and her man Gabe and their combined powers
of deduction they would have perished with out a doubt.
Autumn, who is a key piece in the puzzle transverses the spectrum of
physical mental and emotional challenges through out the story and
ultimately has her own metamorphosis through this rude awakening into a
new level of personal empowerment, and indignant independence.
Things that made me go hmmmm: My only reservations about the book is that I went into it expecting a
story about a forensic psychiatrist to involve some forensic psychiatry,
or at least a touch of passing psychoanalyses whilst dodging the
bullets. For example: “He’s shooting at me, perhaps I remind him of his
mother!” It didn’t, so I was a little disappointed with that, but that
is ok, I will talk that through with my therapist!
The conclusion: But if you are looking for a no-holds-barred roller coaster ride through
a birthday party that travels down through the bitter bile of revenge
up through the adrenaline rush of survival and round the bend of bone
chilling fear to settle in a homeopathic dose of lov