Tears Are Solely Water by J. Herman Kleiger
My score: 3 of 5 stars
3.5 stars
Tears Are Solely Water is a psychological thriller set in Colorado.
It opens with an excellent mathematically-minded bookkeeper who finds one thing amiss with an organization account that he’s making an attempt to reconcile. Carmine is a troubled soul and struggles in social conditions, so he prefers to work alone at night time.
After an extended misplaced pal pays Carmine a go to with cryptic requests for assist, Carmine’s nervousness results in an assault of his workplace supervisor. It leads to his speedy arrest and psychiatric appraisal; every part spirals uncontrolled and Carmine’s sister is known as to Denver to assist unravel the mess.
The writer’s background data of psychology shines via on this novel and he cleverly weaves in lots of points of psychological well being into the narrative. There may be additionally a robust theme of therapeutic and I particularly loved the components linked to the Native American strategies used to heal an individual’s interior thoughts.
The thriller was fairly a tangle, nevertheless it performed a lesser function than the therapeutic journey of Carmine. On the entire I preferred many of the characters; nonetheless, a few the principle girls didn’t fairly ring true for me; emotionally, they appeared extra like males with feminine names. Dialogue kinds and reactions that I normally affiliate with males irritated me at first, however as soon as I missed them, I used to be sufficient to get to the ending.
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E book description:
Carmine Luedke, a shy, narcoleptic bookkeeper hides from the world and comforts himself by reciting arcane mathematical equations and proofs. Unable to remain awake in the course of the day, he works via the night time balancing the books. However abruptly, the numbers aren’t including up….
One fateful night time, an sudden and stunning reunion with a long-lost pal he believed to be useless sends shockwaves via Carmine’s fastidiously crafted routine. She arrives with an pressing plea and vanishes into skinny air, leaving him with extra questions than solutions. Determined for readability, Carmine’s life spirals into chaos, and he withdraws from the world, struggling to make sense of all of it. His self-absorbed older sister, a battle-hardened deputy, and a sensible Navajo Elder all try to achieve him, however the query is it already too late?
