{"id":983,"date":"2014-04-11T18:14:30","date_gmt":"2014-04-11T18:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaeltuckerauthor.com\/aquarius_falling\/?p=983"},"modified":"2016-12-17T09:03:29","modified_gmt":"2016-12-17T09:03:29","slug":"review-aquarius-falling-capricorns-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michaeltuckerauthor.com\/2014\/04\/11\/review-aquarius-falling-capricorns-collapse\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Aquarius Falling & Capricorn’s Collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"

$\"both_books_S\"$ Here is a great review of my novels, from Albert Bekus, Professor Emeritus, English Dept., Austin Peay University.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Mike:<\/strong><\/p>\n

I hope you\u2019re planning the third segment to complete the trilogy.\u00a0 Misty and Delany certainly have too much potential to let them live happily ever after.\u00a0 Misty is intriguing.\u00a0 You have kept her well guarded\u2014which feeds the reader\u2019s imagination.\u00a0 We want to know her better in a third installment.\u00a0 And Delaney too with his fragmented morality.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Delaney\u2019s narration is remarkable.\u00a0 As narrator he is precise, observant, believable.\u00a0 We trust him.\u00a0 As a character he has another personality, one that sometimes surprises us, intrigues us, an enigma.\u00a0 A hero\/antihero?<\/strong><\/p>\n

From the very beginning your novels move naturalistically in the American literary tradition of Theodore Dreiser\u2019s \u201cAn American Tragedy.\u201d\u00a0 But with a twist. . . not the inevitable tragic ending for the protagonist that naturalism demands (consider also \u201cThe Great Gatsby\u201d).<\/strong><\/p>\n

Good plot (the story\u2019s the thing), good characterization, and excellently realistic dialogue, which could make or break a novel\u00a0 The music and Zodiac motifs throughout–the latter also an element of naturalism\u2014give the reader a \u201cunified familiarity\u201d\u00a0 as the plot progresses.<\/strong><\/p>\n

All kinds of great stuff here, Mike.\u00a0 There\u2019s nothing not to appreciate and much to discuss.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Take care, Al<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"