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Review by So Nice -- Lemoncella Cocktail by Rene Natan
[Following is a volunteer review of "Lemoncella Cocktail" by Rene Natan.]
3 out of 4 stars
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Lemoncella Cocktail by Rene Natan is a crime and thriller novel. The setting of the plot is Canada. It is an interesting story about a girl named Amelia McLeod who put her entire family in harms way and was constantly on the run for her life after she got romantically involved with a notorious illegal arms dealer called Oscar Calander.
Patrick Carter is the hero of the story. A jolly good fellow with a pleasant sense of humor. In the opening plot, he managed to save Samantha's life; Amelia's younger sister after she was left to drown in the river by her captors who mistook her for Amelia.
In a bid to evade the authorities and keep his nefarious albeit boisterous arms business under wraps, Oscar Calander planted explosives in a private plane which killed Amelia's parents and sister (Samantha) and continued in his quest to find and eliminate Amelia after she witnessed the exchange of illegal arms and money between him and his business partners.
I was fascinated by how the authorities hunted Oscar for so long and he managed to evade them all the while, even, sometimes passing right though their surveillance undetected. I did not love his character though.
I will rate this book 3 out of 4 stars because though it has an intriguing storyline with unpredictable turnout of events, the editing was very poorly done; making a rather interesting novel come out untidy. There were loads of grammatical errors, misspellings, wrong phrases and error with names.
The other reservation I had about the book was the many emphasis on food, cooking and eating. Almost every chapter had mention of food and meals, whether the setting was at home, office or elsewhere. All these constituted major distractions.
There were also a few sections of the story that were not quite convincing; for example, Jessica McLeod's reaction to the demise of her son, daughter-in-law and granddaughter. She was rather too calm and calculated after such terrible losses.
The other two places where the story was not too plausible were; how did Oscar find Ron Amaldi in the University Hospital? There was also no explanation to Martha Steiger's sudden violence at the food court where she had gone to meet with Arnold Calander.
However, considering all its downsides, the book was still an interesting read and I would recommend it to lovers of action and crime if the publisher does a thorough work of editing the book.
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3 out of 4 stars
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Lemoncella Cocktail by Rene Natan is a crime and thriller novel. The setting of the plot is Canada. It is an interesting story about a girl named Amelia McLeod who put her entire family in harms way and was constantly on the run for her life after she got romantically involved with a notorious illegal arms dealer called Oscar Calander.
Patrick Carter is the hero of the story. A jolly good fellow with a pleasant sense of humor. In the opening plot, he managed to save Samantha's life; Amelia's younger sister after she was left to drown in the river by her captors who mistook her for Amelia.
In a bid to evade the authorities and keep his nefarious albeit boisterous arms business under wraps, Oscar Calander planted explosives in a private plane which killed Amelia's parents and sister (Samantha) and continued in his quest to find and eliminate Amelia after she witnessed the exchange of illegal arms and money between him and his business partners.
I was fascinated by how the authorities hunted Oscar for so long and he managed to evade them all the while, even, sometimes passing right though their surveillance undetected. I did not love his character though.
I will rate this book 3 out of 4 stars because though it has an intriguing storyline with unpredictable turnout of events, the editing was very poorly done; making a rather interesting novel come out untidy. There were loads of grammatical errors, misspellings, wrong phrases and error with names.
The other reservation I had about the book was the many emphasis on food, cooking and eating. Almost every chapter had mention of food and meals, whether the setting was at home, office or elsewhere. All these constituted major distractions.
There were also a few sections of the story that were not quite convincing; for example, Jessica McLeod's reaction to the demise of her son, daughter-in-law and granddaughter. She was rather too calm and calculated after such terrible losses.
The other two places where the story was not too plausible were; how did Oscar find Ron Amaldi in the University Hospital? There was also no explanation to Martha Steiger's sudden violence at the food court where she had gone to meet with Arnold Calander.
However, considering all its downsides, the book was still an interesting read and I would recommend it to lovers of action and crime if the publisher does a thorough work of editing the book.
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