Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

In “Or Else,” novelist Andy Drake has returned home to take care of his aging father and entered into a secret affair with a married woman he’s known since childhood. Now, someone has discovered that affair and, in a note left on Andy’s doorstep, is demanding that it stop. Who is it? The woman’s husband? A member of Andy’s family? A neighbor in this small community in upstate New York? Unfortunately, I’m some fifty pages into this novel that’s supposed to be “A Thriller,” and absolutely could care less. The characters are not the least bit compelling. The plot is mundane. The dialogue is uninspired. The Adirondack Mountain setting is barely utilized. And the writing vacillates between mediocre and just plain bad. Filled with cliches, grammatical errors, and awkward, clunky sentences that sometimes make little sense, “Or Else” is a real chore to read. Amazon First readers may well want to skip this and try something else.