The Anaheim Beauties Valencia Queen (A Red Car Noir Series)
Author: D. J. Phinney
My Review and Thoughts:
A wonderfully written Noir drama. An intense complex story
that messes with your mind, heart, soul and personal understandings of history.
In all honesty this is a multilayered story of history and intense drama.
This has an intensity yet mixed with a heartfelt persona
that lingers page to page. A story written to unfold page after page. You the
reader want to know what happens next in this dramatic historical tale.
A solid book with utterly amazing characters. Dramatic,
touching, and an ultimate wonderment of perfection in written form. This book
greatly deserves to be praised. You sense the history. You become apart of the
history. You touch the ordeal on the page as it floods your mind.
You are transported to a time in history, right after WW1.
You are there in California. The sun, the beautiful people, but also the
darkness of the Ku Klux Klan. The time is 1924 and the Ku Klux Klan has taken
over the Anaheim California’s City Council. Also, in a tragic reality they have
placed themselves inside the police department. Your two main characters Helen
and Dean give you a story that unfolds in wonderful graphic intense detail. A
spiraling drama of action laced history.
D.J. Phinney is a master at words and capturing those words
in a brilliant story of suspense and deception. A great read with thick plotted
actions and edge of your seat moments with pure tension to cause everything in
the emotion department for the reader reading the book.
This is a believable reality-based
plot.
The introduction to the characters and the buildup of personas
is a well thought out process. Flawless through actions by tight written form.
The characters are relatable and true. There are natural twists and turns.
Surprises that work and are plausible. I think what really stands out is the
pure historical reality and the vivid description of that time in history. D.J.
Phinney places you there, gives you that old historical sense in the mind.
Gives you the personal heart of a time long ago, bleeding off the pages as you
turn to further the story. A trip in history and a trip into the lives of
complex characters that you become intertwined with in total personal
realities.
A perfected read.
Would I Recommend: Absolutely. For historical buffs. For
drama buffs and most of all that classical sense of Noir reality. A wonderful
book to praise and recommended reading.
Would I Return To: Absolutely? I think this is a book that
can be reread in the future and still give the same great storytelling reality
that he has when you first read it.
Four Final Words: Passionate, Historical, Dramatic, Intense.