Crush

Speed can be the saving grace of any number of literary sins: cliched plotting, shallow characterizations, you name it. Make a story fast enough and kicky enough and readers will forgive the author a lot. Crush is an example. It reads like the wind: fast and slick, but completely lacking any nutriti......more

[Read in Jan 2020; Reviewed June 2022] When I first read that Phoef Sutton had created a character named K.C. Zerbe I immediately thought, Ah, one of my people. For those not in my age bracket--or if you lack my interest in the trivial (as opposed to Trivia)--Lt. K.C. Trench, played by Anthony Zerbe,......more

Phoef Sutton hits a towering home run with CRUSH. Cleverly written and action-packed, the novel moves like a freight train, weaving fascinating characters with blistering violence, crackling dialogue and twisting turns. On par with the best writers in this genre, Sutton has crafted a character worth......more

As someone else mentions here, it reads like a screenplay. Not a lot of depth, characterization, or emotional impact; just a lot of fast-paced action scenes with people who are not particularly interesting or likable.......more

Not all that impressing.......more