Archive for June, 2012

A fresh, entertaining story with an action-packed plot.

Au Revior, Crazy European Chick by Joe Schreiber is a clever, engaging novel.  It will keep you entertained and trurning pages.

After a short (but sufficient) portion of the story spent introducing the main characters, the majority of the book describes the events of a single evening that turns the previous introduction on it’s ear.  The character you (and the male protagonist, Perry) thought you knew turned out to be someone else and you’re along for the ride.

Perry’s narration of the action, into which he is reluctantly included in by Gobi, is real and entertaining.  It isn’t forced or overly-dramatic.  You can related to and believe Perry.  It’s not over-the-top.  And the action itself is entertaining too!

I especially enjoyed the chapter introductions pulled from (I assume actual) college/university acceptance application essays.  They were used as pseudo-mini-prologues for the chapter which I thought was very clever.  My favorite was “You’ve just written a 300-page autobiography.  Send us page 217. (University of Pennsylvania)”  You’ll have to read the book for context.

Technically, the book was well-written and well-edited.  But you will likely not care about editing as you cruise through the book.  You’ll just want to keep reading.

I definitely recommend this original, quirky, action-packed roller-coaster ride.

On my ‘scientific’ rating scale of 0-100 degrees (100 being red-hot awesome), Au Revior, Crazy European Chick is 95 degrees.  A great story!