"I strip away your heart from here and see what I can find"
Recently finished Flight of Aquavit: A Russell Quant Novel. Summary is as follows:
At the dead end of a desolate country road, a late night meeting suddenly becomes an ambush. Gay private detective Russell Quant is faced with personal threats he can't ignore, a friend who may be a foe and a cagey client with a treacherous monkey on his back. As Quant trails a menacing blackmailer known only as Loverboy, he finds himself immersed in the midnight world of e-dating and parking lot romance. Lured to New York City, Quant tests his wit, wisdom and wiles from the Old World grandeur of Fifth Avenue to the kaleidoscope world of Broadway's electric nightspots. The fast pace continues when Quant returns to Saskatoon where he grapples with decoys and deceit, realizing that no one is as they appear. Threat turns into deadly reality and the need to uncover the identity of Loverboy becomes increasingly desperate. Quant deftly maneuvres through the twists and turns of a perilous case and a personal life rife with its own mystique and mayhem.
The novel feels roughly like Amuse Bouche except with added personal drama involving Quant's mother's appearance for Christmas and his friend Kelly's stress over combatting breast cancer (her partner being the one that I thought was a man for the first 117 pages of the first book).
Compared to the first book, it's a bit more ridiculous but in a sense it may be more fun. The characters are still as stale and wish-they-existed as they were in Amuse Bouche, but they've become more familiar and...realistic? While still remaining foreign, if that makes any sense whatnsoever.
If you read and enjoyed the first book, you'll probably enjoy this one as well. Actually, all the characters and situations carrying over are reiterated, and really, you don't even have to read Amuse Bouche to know what's going on in the series.
P.S. it's 2004 and Russell Quant still has a dial-up internet connection WHAT
At the dead end of a desolate country road, a late night meeting suddenly becomes an ambush. Gay private detective Russell Quant is faced with personal threats he can't ignore, a friend who may be a foe and a cagey client with a treacherous monkey on his back. As Quant trails a menacing blackmailer known only as Loverboy, he finds himself immersed in the midnight world of e-dating and parking lot romance. Lured to New York City, Quant tests his wit, wisdom and wiles from the Old World grandeur of Fifth Avenue to the kaleidoscope world of Broadway's electric nightspots. The fast pace continues when Quant returns to Saskatoon where he grapples with decoys and deceit, realizing that no one is as they appear. Threat turns into deadly reality and the need to uncover the identity of Loverboy becomes increasingly desperate. Quant deftly maneuvres through the twists and turns of a perilous case and a personal life rife with its own mystique and mayhem.
The novel feels roughly like Amuse Bouche except with added personal drama involving Quant's mother's appearance for Christmas and his friend Kelly's stress over combatting breast cancer (her partner being the one that I thought was a man for the first 117 pages of the first book).
Compared to the first book, it's a bit more ridiculous but in a sense it may be more fun. The characters are still as stale and wish-they-existed as they were in Amuse Bouche, but they've become more familiar and...realistic? While still remaining foreign, if that makes any sense whatnsoever.
If you read and enjoyed the first book, you'll probably enjoy this one as well. Actually, all the characters and situations carrying over are reiterated, and really, you don't even have to read Amuse Bouche to know what's going on in the series.
P.S. it's 2004 and Russell Quant still has a dial-up internet connection WHAT