Book Review
Basic Details:
Book Title: The Sand
Fiddlers
Subtitle: A Rogue Green
Beret's Escape From the Memories of Vietnam
Author:
Les Burns
Genre: Action &
Adventure
Part of a series? Yes
Order in series: 1
Best read after earlier
books in series?
Available: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60583352-the-sand-fiddlers-a-rogue-green-beret-s-escape-from-the-memories-of-vi
Overall
score:
I
scored this book 4.5/5
⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
Short
Summary of the book:
Alex has returned from Vietnam after going
rogue to avenge his team. He will leave the army with an honourable discharge
in a few days. Searching for a peaceful quiet, he finds a beach. However, the
quiet is disturbed by a mysterious girl with a dark secret. Is all as it seems?
What
I liked about the book:
This book was a pageturner and action-packed.
What
I didn’t like about the book:
There was nothing to dislike in this book.
My
favourite bits in the book:
How Alex determined whether the encounter was
real.
My
least favourite bits in the book:
There are none.
Any
further books in the series? Any more planned by this author?
This is the first book in the series and I
wonder what will happen next with Alex. Will he find the mysterious girl?
What
books could this be compared to and why?
This is a book of adventure and psychology.
Recommendation:
In
summary, I would recommend this book for the following readers:
|
Children |
No |
|
Young
Adult |
Yes |
|
Adult |
Yes |
If
you like action and adventure, this book may
be the book for you.
I’m
certainly looking forward to reading more by this author.
Book
Description by Author:
Alex Driscoll, a US Army Special Forces
combat veteran, seeks solitude on an isolated section of beach while awaiting a
discharge forced upon him due to an unauthorized eighteen-month mission to
avenge the torture and butchering of his teammates at the hands of a Viet Cong
death squad. A mysterious blonde-haired woman shows up unexpectedly and ruins
his plans for seclusion. Suspecting she is either a war protestor or sent by
the Criminal Investigation Division of the Army’s Military Police, he tries to
keep her distant. His suspicion dissipates when she reveals her lack of modesty
and disclosure of childhood sexual abuse, retaliation, and possibly murder in a
past as dark as his own. She claims she only seeks answers about the demons
possessing a former friend who didn’t return from the same jungle. The
strangers are drawn closer throughout the day and night, only for him to
discover the circumstances of the former friend aren’t what they seemed. Torn
between reality and fantasy, his realization that he has fallen in love may
have come too late to save the developing romance.
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