Official Review: Kill Abby White! Now! by C.B. Huesing

tranquilwaters86+2 · Post by **tranquilwaters86+2** » 27 Jan 2019, 02:55

Sometimes our curiosity could get us into trouble, this story sounds like it's the perfect example. Although not all fast-paced story guarantees a good book, the review and rating of this book seem to say that.

safah26121990 · Post by **safah26121990** » 27 Jan 2019, 02:56

A mafia thriller !! this is right up my stream!!

Kishor Rao · Post by **Kishor Rao** » 27 Jan 2019, 02:58

Wow. Mind blowing review. I am getting this book now!

TheTrueNyree · Post by **TheTrueNyree** » 27 Jan 2019, 03:27

Sounds like a pretty good read. Good job on the review. It's not my usual type of story but it sounds interesting. Witnessing something bad from the mafia can be dangerous even if u dont 0lan on snitching or telling what you saw. I just may read it to find out. Congratulations on botd

Beatus · Post by **Beatus** » 27 Jan 2019, 04:00

Lovely review, lovely plot, lovely book. Struggle and suspence equals good book. Congrats to the author and thanks for a free copy.

T_stone · Post by **T_stone** » 27 Jan 2019, 04:19

Crime thrillers are always very interesting. With a blend of historical fiction this will be a book worth reading. Thanks for the review.

ea_anthony · Post by **ea_anthony** » 27 Jan 2019, 05:04

This is a nicely written review. I usually have a bias for historical fiction, if not for anything else but the knowledge adding. This book should be quite a handful following four plus characters over a twenty year period (which encompasses the WW II years). I hope to read it soon. Congrats to the author on #BOTD

mmphagan · Post by **mmphagan** » 31 Jan 2019, 22:41

Review of Kill Abby White! Now! by C.B. Huesing

I generally enjoy historical fiction books and especially historical fiction books set in World War II, but this book did not do it for me.
People have mentioned that the pace was fast and it was that, too fast. It felt like the author was trying to incorporate every possible major event from 1929-1942/3 all in the same book. I did not feel like I ever connected with any of the characters as there was scant information given about them and what information you did get, came in little bites. The characters were just sort of static and didn't seem to have any depth to them. I found most of the conversations juvenile and uninteresting.
As to the historical fiction part of the story, I found several elements just not believable. I realize an author does use some license when writing historical fiction as you cannot know every single thing that happened to certain people, but the idea that Al Capone gave the order to "Kill Abby White! Now!"?? No. The idea that Hitler proposed to Abby White?? No. It was as if this Abby White were the heroine of heroines and lived and did everything there was to do in World War II and met every important person in World War II that a person could meet all in one book. I think it would have worked better if some of the events had been explored a bit more and that were done through a series of books.
There were also a number of typos including two spellings of Goebbels (Goebbels and Goebbles). Also, it seemed to need more editing. Such as, there were things that the characters said that either didn't really make sense with something they had said previously or they just simply contradicted themselves in the very next sentence.
Having said all that, I did appreciate the free copy and the fact that the stories of each person resolved themselves in the end and you weren't left wondering what happened to certain characters.

Mbrooks2518 · Post by **Mbrooks2518** » 01 Feb 2019, 12:19

I'm not usually into historical fiction, but this one sounds really interesting, both the main plot and the historical events included. Great review!

Mandy Males Cole · Post by **Mandy Males Cole** » 13 Mar 2019, 16:01

I liked this book but felt it was unbalanced. Either the author should have included more about Capone and the mafia or left it out and found another way to establish Abbie's gutsy character. It seemed like two stories that could easily have been written as two different adventures by expanding upon the St. Valentine's Day massacre and the Chicago mob scene.