Thanksgiving
"Thanksgiving is the first novel in the Holiday Series and it is multifaceted. A thrilling murder mystery with supernatural underpinnings, the novel is also a morality play about human greed. A dynamic new voice, Gage's undexpected insights and visualizations quickly ensnare.
The first scene of the book goes back thirty years into the past, describing a permanent division erupting between Latham Donnelly and his wife, April. She assumed her husband was responsible for her latest pregnancy, and he believed he'd been cuckolded. Latham was sure that someone else had fathered their third child. Never confronting each other, the ongoing pressure was never resolved and the reverberations of what had really taken place destroyed the future of the entire family.
Returning to the present, everything revolved around Latham and April Donnelly, and their two sons and their married daughter. The entire family hadn't been together for over five years, and April had set up a reunion on Thanksgiving in 2004. During the festivities, politesse oozed out of them like sweet maple syrup, but it was only veneer. Behind their ingratiating smiles, things were actually getting worse. Nevertheless, they decided to commit themselves to another reunion a year later in a drunken and resounding toast. In the intervening months a few different grievous plans sprouted among them. Thick irony and black humor to gently impart the bad news, their second get together is a culminatgion jet fueled by depravity.
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***MY HONEST REVIEW OF THANKSGIVING***
When April became pregnant with her third child, she was
unaware that her husband, Latham, had gotten a vasectomy done beforehand. Not
knowing this, she had no idea why their marriage went downhill, as he never
told her. What Latham doesn’t know is that April had been loyal to him all
along. Many years later, when their three kids are grown, the animosity reaches
a breaking point. Not only for April and Latham, but also for each of their
offspring.
What a family this was! The plot had me bouncing
around like a rubber ball. Each of the characters had good qualities, as well
as bad ones, giving me a love/hate relationship with each of them. With all the
greed, corruption, and selfishness, it was like watching an episode of Dallas,
except that this had more levity. I knew the showdown was going to be epic, and
couldn’t wait for it to happen. I must say though, that the supernatural aspect
kept me a bit confused.
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