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Cold Kiss: A Boys' Own Adventures in Radio and Beyond by John Rector

tdeshler's review against another edition

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3.0

l liked the tight structure of the small group in the motel, but then the ending sort of fizzled out for me.

ericwelch's review against another edition

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4.0

Audiobook. A good thriller must have several things going for it to keep me entertained: I must care about one or more of the characters; I have to want to find out what happens in the end; and it has to be reasonably well written. If the characters are relatively normal people, i.e., don’t have the superhuman powers so common in some thrillers today, that's a plus. My crap-detector swings into overdrive when our hero manages to take on twelve bad guys with one six-shooter and gets all of them. Sometimes two criteria out of three works; sometimes not. Cold Kiss meets all three.

This book reminded me so much of A Simple Plan (https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39543741) by Scott Smith. Nate and his fiancé find themselves driving into a blizzard on their way to Reno to get married. At a rest stop they meet a man, obviously ill, who offers them $500 to drive him there also as his car needs some work. They agree but as the snow worsens they are forced to stop at a motel in the middle of nowhere with heat but no power. They discover the man has been shot, and, he has a suitcase full of money. One thing leads to another and soon the man is dead, the motel’s handyman is suspicious, the snow is worsening, and everyone is getting greedy.

Paul Michael Garcia reads with a laconic, slow tempo that drives the tension effectively.

ctgt's review against another edition

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4.0

This was my first Rector read and I loved it! It was as if i sitting in the theater yelling at the screen, "Don't open that door!". The couple keeps making decisions that you know are going to lead the down the wrong path. The interesting part was they kept taking turns making these decisions, instead of one character making all the wrong choices. Loved it!

stanl's review against another edition

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3.0

Good solid noir though not sure about the ending.

xxreadwithcharliexx's review against another edition

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1.0

What an utter pile of ****.
It took 200+ pages before things started getting interesting. But even that was brief. A murderous rampage and then **** once more. Even the ending was so bad! Wasted my time reading this though I'm sure it'll appeal to someone else, I just didn't enjoy it at all.