Tuesday, June 23, 2020

~ REVELL READS A DREAM WITHIN A DREAM ~

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--  'A DREAM WITHIN A DREAM'  --
AUTHORS MIKE NAPPA &
MELISSA KOSCI




ABOUT THE BOOK:

He may be the key to solving one of the greatest unsolved art heists in history.

Trudi Coffey hasn't seen Samuel Hill in weeks. Then the FBI shows up asking about him. After a strange encounter with an armed man demanding her help and an attack by a member of the Boston mob looking for someone named Dream, Trudi manages to find Samuel--or rather, he finds her. He's made some pretty powerful enemies, but right now his full attention is on protecting Dream from the mob. Because Dream has something they want--the map to the location of artwork stolen from the Gardner Museum during the infamous 1990 heist.

With danger closing in from all sides, Trudi and Samuel will have to call on all their allies to keep Dream safe and discover the identities of the people who have been hunting down Samuel. The real questions are, whom can they trust? And who will make it out of this alive?

Praise for the Coffey & Hill series

"A thrill ride."--Tosca Lee, New York Times bestselling author on The Raven

"Impossible to put down."--Lois Duncan, New York Times bestselling author on Annabel Lee

"Compelling, fast-paced, and filled with fascinating characters."--M. K. Preston, Mary Higgins Clark Award-winning novelist on Annabel Lee

ABOUT THE AUTHORS:

Mike Nappa is an entertainment journalist at FamilyFans.com, as well as a bestselling and award-winning author with more than one million books sold worldwide. When he was a kid, the stories of Edgar Allen Poe scared him silly. Today he owns everything Poe ever wrote. A former fiction acquisitions editor, Mike earned his MA in English literature and now writes full-time. He is the author of Annabel Lee and The Raven.

Melissa Kosci is a fourth-degree black belt in and certified instructor of Songahm Taekwondo. In her day job as a commercial property manager, she secretly notes personal quirks and funny situations, ready to tweak them into colorful additions for her books. She and Corey, her husband of twenty years, live in Florida, where they do their best not to melt in the sun.



EXCERPT COURTESY OF THE PUBLISHER:

MY THOUGHTS:
This book was appealing to me because of its art and poetry themes and because it is a Christian mystery/suspense novel. I did not read the previous two books in this series, and I found it a challenge to understand several of the scenes and references to the past because of how often the characters referred to the characters and events in the previous two stories.

This book is filled with quirky characters and multiple narrators (POVs) making it a challenging read -- always a good thing, in my opinion.

I enjoyed the authors' use of higher-level vocabulary and their inclusion of an assortment of well-developed characters. Another positive attribute for this book is the inclusion of strong diverse characters in positive main character and supporting character roles.

Compared to the other half dozen or so Christian mystery/suspense novels I have read in the past few months written by a variety of authors, I felt this book included a lot of on-page violence. I found the manner in which one character was treated by those who were pursuing him to be cruel and unnecessary.


The references to the Edgar Allen Poe poem, 'A Dream Within a Dream', were interesting. I was glad the publisher included the text of Mr. Poe's poem as a prologue to the story because it enriched the meaning of the title and references to the poem sound within the story for me.

 
Disclosure from blogger: I received a paperback copy of this novel from the publisher in exchange for an honest review to be posted on my blog and on retailer sites and Goodreads. I received no compensation for my review or posts here or on any other site.


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