So I did a short interview with Bookstagrammer, Laura aka @wonderchick40 on her experience reading S.A. Cosby’s summer blockbuster King of Ashes to get her response. If you are unfamiliar with her–she’s what I call The Book Beast, because she reads a couple hundred books a year on a regular basis. Every now and then I’ll check in to see what’s she’s been reading. Here’s what she said…
1. Did you read the paperback or audiobook KING OF ASHES?
I alternated between the physical and audiobook but his audiobooks are always phenomenal because the narrator nails the vibe!
2. What stood out to you the most about this book?
Just the pure grit of this story. It’s a true original storyline and was dirt and grit.
3. Favorite characters?
Roman (the main character) was my favorite. He was a total badass and evolved so much in the story.
4. What impresses you the most about S.A. Cosby’s writing?
Cosby’s writing is like sitting down with an old southern gentleman and having him tell you a story. From the first book I read of his, I understood the hype immediately.
5. Are you hoping for a sequel or the beginning of a new series?
Basically I would read his grocery list because I’m a serious fan. Anything he writes amazes me.
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“Propulsive and powerful. . . A gripping roller coaster ride of escalating danger.” —New York Times Book Review
“Pick up the novel everyone will be talking about.” —The Atlantic
“Dark, riveting, and accomplished.” —Washington Post
Award-winning, New York Times bestselling author S. A. Cosby returns with King of Ashes, a Godfather-inspired Southern crime epic and dazzling family drama.
When eldest son Roman Carruthers is summoned home after his father’s car accident, he finds his younger brother, Dante, in debt to dangerous criminals and his sister, Neveah, exhausted from holding the family—and the family business—together. Neveah and their father, who run the Carruthers Crematorium in the run-down central Virginia town of Jefferson Run, see death up close every day. But mortality draws even closer when it becomes clear that the crash that landed their father in a coma was no accident and Dante’s recklessness has placed them all in real danger.
Roman, a financial whiz with a head for numbers and a talent for making his clients rich, has some money to help buy his brother out of trouble. But in his work with wannabe tough guys, he’s forgotten that there are real gangsters out there. As his bargaining chips go up in smoke, Roman realizes that he has only one thing left to offer to save his brother: himself, and his own particular set of skills.
Roman begins his work for the criminals while Neveah tries to uncover the long-ago mystery of what happened to their mother, who disappeared when they were teenagers. But Roman is far less of a pushover than the gangsters realize. He is willing to do anything to save his family. Anything.
Because everything burns.
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