Book Review: Your Last Breath by Carole Parkes and Doug Lafuze

 

Book Review

Basic Details:

Book Title: Your Last Breath

Subtitle:

Author: Carole Parkes and Doug Lafuze

Genre: Thriller

Part of a series? No

Order in series:

Best read after earlier books in series?

Available:  https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28299913-your-last-breath

Overall score:

I scored this book 5/5

⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

Short Summary of the book:

Imagine. You are desperate to write a good thriller but the inspiration is lacking. Would you resort to seeking out inspiration? Of course, you would. But would you go to the extreme measures of becoming a serial killer to achieve that goal? Raymond Lang is that author and he risks all to become the acclaimed author he dreams of. Will he succeed or will someone be able to stop him and save those he loves?

What I liked about the book:

This was a great book. The co-authorship worked quite well.

What I didn’t like about the book:

I loved the entire book.

My favourite bits in the book:

When Amelia becomes a hero.

My least favourite bits in the book:

I enjoyed the entire book.

Any further books in the series? Any more planned by this author?

This is a stand-alone thriller. The author has also written another thriller and I enjoyed that one too.

What books could this be compared to and why?

I can’t say what book to compare this to. It was original.

Recommendation:

In summary, I would recommend this book for the following readers:

 

Children	No
Young Adult	Maybe not
Adult	Yes

 

If you like suspense and thrillers, this book may be the book for you.

I look forward to reading more books by this author.

Book Description by Author:

American misfit, Raymond Lang, has always dreamed of writing a suspenseful thriller. The problem is, whenever he’s tried to write about the gruesome murder scenes he needs for his book, a fog-like curtain descends in his mind preventing him from seeing the crimes clearly.

 

A chance meeting with an old flame reveals a way to solve his writer’s block. In fulfilling her astonishing request, he’s surprised to find his creativity is released and the chapters flow smoothly. It doesn’t last long though. If he wants to continue his writing, he has to unleash his dark side and kill again.

 

Now, the police are on his tail, but he won’t stop this blood-lust until his novel is completed. Can he finish and publish it before he’s caught? Even more to the point, how many victims will he have to claim to do it?

About the Author:

Carole Parkes is a wife of 51 years, a mother of three sons, and a grandmother. She first ventured into writing in 1985 when her children were still at home. She wrote a series of children's books, some short stories, and a novel 'Tissue of Lies'.

 

Much later, she became interested in her roots, so she stopped writing fiction and for many years wrote about her family's history instead.

 

Caring for her elderly parents and her husband, who had suffered a serious heart attack at the age of forty-three, took up a huge chunk of her middle years. After her parents both passed away, aged ninety-seven and ninety-four, Carole rewrote 'Tissue of Lies' to bring it up to date and self published it as an eBook on Amazon. Tissue of Lies is doing well averaging 4.3 star reviews and is due out in paperback during March 2017.

 

Now she has a second eBook, co-authored with Doug Lafuze. 'Your Last Breath' is a much darker thriller than her first one, and it has been well received with 10 out its 12 reviews attracting 5 stars on Amazon. It has just been published in paperback format, and is available now from Amazon and other major book stores.

 

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