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“I liked the plot of this book and the characters, but the writing seemed a little dis-jointed and confusing at times. ”
Dianne J wrote this review Tuesday, November 10 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No“Bought this to read because Davis Bunn is coming to my community in December”
Janie S wrote this review Tuesday, September 8 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Another winner from Bunn. At first I didn't like that there was another set of characters "with a past". It already happened in the Great Divide, but he used the elements of the characters past to show the struggle that people go through to overcome. The front storry was classic Bunn, a financial/legal thriller with enough action to keep it interesting.
Adam P wrote this review Thursday, April 23 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
What I liked the best is that I felt a genuine interest and warmth toward the characters populating this story.”
“Great page turner; believable hero as we question "what is a hero, really?" --good companion while I'm reading Homer's "Odyssey" for work!”
Shawna V wrote this review Saturday, November 15 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Wayne Grusza is a Special Forces trained military man, who just so happens to be a CPA. Weird combination, but Wayne has the best of both worlds. He'd seen enough action in the war to last him a lifetime when his sister, woman pastor, Eilene Belote, wants him to help solve a case for Hattie Blount Community - a place she calls home. Wayne really has no place to go or any place to call home, so he checks out their financial books. It's the least he could do for the sister who had always been there for him.
Nora wrote this review Sunday, September 14 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
In this investigation, Wayne uncovers a scam and reports to the board that the community is about to lose everything. This was a retirement home and no one could afford to lose a dime. After all, these people were on fixed incomes. Wayne hated this kind of thing, and had little patience for a man that would prey on the innocent and abuse people's trust. He would get their money back the best way he knew how. He wasn't going to lose this community to a con man; not on his watch. This was now personal.
As Wayne plots to save the community, he is asked to check out another similar case. He is brought in as a consultant to check out what has happened. He's seen this before. He thinks it's strange to have two similar scams take place so close together. This was a small town...there had to be a connection. Wayne soon discovers that Mr. Easton, the President of this big corporation, has been visited by an angel. He isn't sure he wants to get involved in this one. He wasn't much on religion. His father was a pastor and so was his sister – he'd heard more than enough about religion. Wayne lived life on his own terms - thank you very much. "I don't want to talk to talk to angels or a man who has talked to angels."
Wayne meets an older woman named Victoria, who lives in Hattie Blount Community, tells him that she is praying for him. He knows his sister and father had been praying for him for years. A lot of good that has done him. But this woman seems to look into his soul and says "Worst kinds of addiction, the very worst, are those of the heart. Anger and bitterness don't wound the body like a drug. They gnaw down deep, where the lie can be hidden from almost everyone. The truth is this: the addiction hollows out your soul. No matter what you carry with you, no matter what dark night brought you to where you are, the Lord can make something good of this, if you let Him." Great! That's the last thing he wanted to hear. But deep down to the core of his being he knew she was right. What was he supposed to do with this information?
Wayne has battles raging on all fronts; on the outside with these scams, murders and bad guys trying to kill him and on the inside of his soul. He is facing things he thought he never would - thought they were gone but their back and in living color. He wasn't a man that would run and hide. Now what to do? He needed a strength beyond what he had to survive.
This story takes place in Florida, where I lived for many years. It was fun to hear about all the places that I had been and all the things I remembered about Florida living. I love how Davis Bunn tells a story that gets to the heart of the matter. In the middle of the fighting, drama and action, Bunn deals with heart issues. Wayne is one lean-mean-fighting-machine. This story is filled with adventure, love and second chances, but not just for Wayne. If you love Davis Bunn, you will totally enjoy this story. If you are new to this author, this is the book to jump into and be totally engaged in his exciting story style.
Nora St. Laurent - Book Club Servant Leader
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hopeofglory wrote this review Thursday, August 7 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
The second novel for this week’s CFBA tour is Davis Bunn’s All Through the Night. I’ve read a few of the prolific author’s novels, and one thing that can be said for all of them is they’re entertaining. Having been an author of bestsellers, the recipient of Christy Awards, and books which have sold in excess of six million copies in multiple languages, the guy’s simply a professional novelist, not to mention he is currently serving as the writer-in-residence at Regent’s Park College, Oxford University.
Now one might assume with those credentials Mr. Bunn could be a writer of primarily what we’ve learned to call “literary” prose—what some action seeking readers deem pompous or stilted. The exact opposite is true. His protagonists are all male, flawed and vulnerable, who tend to make up for their sensitivity in a bit of bravado and rely upon a silent, often incommunicado strength. The plots usually take several twists with unreliable characters popping up to confuse the reader and other colorful unique individuals dotting the landscape and subplots of the story while providing all kinds of information and depth to a basic storyline of intelligent, suspenseful, and interesting mysteries.
The unusual source(s) of alienation in his protagonists leads the characters to make sacrificial decisions, and skillfully and intricately woven into these decisions is the choice every man must make for himself as to who and what he will believe in and turn to in the inevitable times of crisis.
All Through the Night gives us 31 year old ex-special ops Wayne Gruzsa (“It’s pronounced ‘Grusha’.”), who is also an army trained accountant, hired by a poor retirement community to recover the life savings of its residents commandeered by a scam artist. Introduced to the opportunity by his pastor sister who has reclaimed him from the hiding out portion of his life after love and war and divorce, he is a man who struggles with nightmares and stealth night addictions to extreme visits just to spy on his ex-wife and her husband and little boy. While you feel his urge to destroy the man who now possesses his former love, you also sense he could never do it because of his innate sense of his own fault in the marriage’s demise.
What can I say? This is a skillfully told tale, entertaining in content and structure, filled with some impossible events which made me want to cheer, all the while exposing the searing pain in the hero and some of those around him but bringing the gradual and necessary healings to those in need of redemption. The ending did not conclude with the resolution of the climactic circumstances, instead gradually satisfying some emotional remnants which allowed the story a graceful finale.
Very, very entertaining story.
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