Review: Sassy by Gloria Mallette

Monday, July 6, 2009

Sassy by Gloria Mallette
Published by Gemini Press
May 2009
ISBN: 978-0-9678789-3-5

Romance, Suspense...Whodunnit?



Sassy Davenport writes successful romance novels for a living, but what she writes comes from her imagination, not her experience. Her current relationship is unremarkably bland and unfulfilling. Then, she meets a handsome architect at her latest book signing and her love life begins to take on a more interesting appeal. After falling head over heels, she is forced to ask herself if she has made a horrible mistake – is this wonderful man truly the brutal murderer he is accused of being, or is this a terrible case of mistaken identity?

Gloria Mallette has succeeded in writing a book so captivating this reader didn’t want to put it down. From page one, the author plunges the reader directly into the crux of the story and grabs her attention. On page ten I ask myself rhetorically, “how is this going to play out?” The suspense is constant, and just when you think the author has given herself away, it’s time to think again – or is it?

Ms. Mallette has included a wide range of feelings and emotions in her characters: hate, anger, love, compassion, jealousy. Some of her characters have them, and other characters evoke them. She’s used shock, suspense, romance, mystery, sympathy and even repulsion to draw in the reader to abandon the lukewarm attitude of a moderate novel, to the eager, anticipating climax of an intense story.