Review of Money Faucet
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Review of Money Faucet
[Following is a volunteer review of "Money Faucet" by Joe Calderwood.]
Clint Kennedy is a criminal who doesn't shy away from that fact and will rightly tell you so himself. Each week he washes and transfers approximately eight million dollars for the drug cartels. Reading Money Faucet by Joe Calderwood made me realize that this genre of novels may be my favorite genre to read. Clint is an American now living in Mexico laundering money for South America's Kingpins. The book opens with a mysterious murder of a lawyer that Clint finds slumped in an office chair. The dead lawyer and our protagonist had a dispute that they decided to be reasonable about and handle without involving the court. The night Clint finds the dead body in the lawyer's office, that was supposed to be the night they met up to settle their issue. Although Clint has a very reliable alibi for his whereabouts, he knows the police would still treat him as a suspect, leading them to investigate him and possibly find out about the laundering business.
I love the humanity portrayed in this book. I don't know whether I can call it that, but the book has very uniquely interesting characters with real problems that everyday people deal with, so it's easy to fall in love with the characters and relate to them because they feel real. One of the main things this book does is inspire the reader to be money-conscious. It tells the reader to do what they do and do it to the best of their ability. Clint lives the type of life everybody dreams of, although not many people would fancy working for the cartels. I mean, we've seen Ozark and Breaking bad. Clint loves his job. He loves the thrill that comes with the danger of working for the dangerous drug cartels. Money Faucet by Joe Calderwood is the second book in The Clint Kennedy Crime Series but reading it hardly feels like that. I have not read the first book in the series, but that did not impede me from enjoying reading Money Faucet.
I had a problem with the portrayal of Clint's emotions in the closing chapters of the book. So the night he discovered the dead body, he was a mess, and understandably so. He was paranoid about the police being on a hunt for him and busting down his door any minute to arrest him. He drowned himself with alcohol to help him cope. All those emotions felt real and were captured and portrayed superbly. Hence why it was such a letdown how all that changed the next morning after the call from Xavier. Because it made the emotional state he was in the night before feel fake, and the writing rushed.
Lovers of murder mystery crime novels will love reading Money Faucet. For younger readers, the book contains some strong language and at least one encounter of a sexual nature. The main character is Bisexual, and there are other characters with different sexual orientations in this book. So if any of these tick your boxes on how you pick what you read next, consider Joe Calderwood's Money Faucet as your next read.
I give the book a rating of 4 out of 4. This is because I did enjoy reading this book. The main character is well written, and the same for the side characters. The book touches on various issues such as family, friendships, and money, and I loved how each one of these was approached.
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Money Faucet
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Clint Kennedy is a criminal who doesn't shy away from that fact and will rightly tell you so himself. Each week he washes and transfers approximately eight million dollars for the drug cartels. Reading Money Faucet by Joe Calderwood made me realize that this genre of novels may be my favorite genre to read. Clint is an American now living in Mexico laundering money for South America's Kingpins. The book opens with a mysterious murder of a lawyer that Clint finds slumped in an office chair. The dead lawyer and our protagonist had a dispute that they decided to be reasonable about and handle without involving the court. The night Clint finds the dead body in the lawyer's office, that was supposed to be the night they met up to settle their issue. Although Clint has a very reliable alibi for his whereabouts, he knows the police would still treat him as a suspect, leading them to investigate him and possibly find out about the laundering business.
I love the humanity portrayed in this book. I don't know whether I can call it that, but the book has very uniquely interesting characters with real problems that everyday people deal with, so it's easy to fall in love with the characters and relate to them because they feel real. One of the main things this book does is inspire the reader to be money-conscious. It tells the reader to do what they do and do it to the best of their ability. Clint lives the type of life everybody dreams of, although not many people would fancy working for the cartels. I mean, we've seen Ozark and Breaking bad. Clint loves his job. He loves the thrill that comes with the danger of working for the dangerous drug cartels. Money Faucet by Joe Calderwood is the second book in The Clint Kennedy Crime Series but reading it hardly feels like that. I have not read the first book in the series, but that did not impede me from enjoying reading Money Faucet.
I had a problem with the portrayal of Clint's emotions in the closing chapters of the book. So the night he discovered the dead body, he was a mess, and understandably so. He was paranoid about the police being on a hunt for him and busting down his door any minute to arrest him. He drowned himself with alcohol to help him cope. All those emotions felt real and were captured and portrayed superbly. Hence why it was such a letdown how all that changed the next morning after the call from Xavier. Because it made the emotional state he was in the night before feel fake, and the writing rushed.
Lovers of murder mystery crime novels will love reading Money Faucet. For younger readers, the book contains some strong language and at least one encounter of a sexual nature. The main character is Bisexual, and there are other characters with different sexual orientations in this book. So if any of these tick your boxes on how you pick what you read next, consider Joe Calderwood's Money Faucet as your next read.
I give the book a rating of 4 out of 4. This is because I did enjoy reading this book. The main character is well written, and the same for the side characters. The book touches on various issues such as family, friendships, and money, and I loved how each one of these was approached.
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Money Faucet
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