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| "The Brothers Bishop" by Bart Yates | | Date Created: Aug 01, 2005, 12:37 PM |
The new book, The Brothers Bishop by Leave Myself Behind author Bart Yates is engaging in spite of its predictability.
The book follows a week in the life of Nathan Bishop, school teacher and loner, whose routines and peace-and-quiet are disturbed by a vacation visit by his younger brother Tommy; Tommy's boyfriend-of-the-moment, Philip; Tommy's friend Camille; and her not-quite-so-straight husband Kyle.
Tommy's visit brings up lots of old memories of their abusive father for Nathan, memories he certainly would rather forget. And, Tommy's devil-may-care attitude about everything doesn't make things any easier for Nathan. Add to that Kyle's unwelcome advances and Tommy's apparent interest in one of Nathan's high school students and you've got a time bomb waiting to go off. It does of course, and everything ends up going very, very badly.
Then there's this whole archeological dig going on in Nathan's back yard. Huh? Yeah, really. I guess it's a "digging up the past" metaphor going on there. Totally unnecessary.
This book is predictable. Really, I knew where it was all going almost from the beginning, though there were a couple little surprises here and there. The characters are written so according to type that you could almost write their dialogue for them. Almost. But the writing is good enough that I actually enjoyed reading this book in spite of these serious flaws.
I would basically classify this book as a "beach read." (In this case, it was a campfire read for me.) Not a great book, but not too bad either. |
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