Listen to this unsolicited review from an excited reader looking forward to my return to Pikeville’s Hillbilly Days festival!
Reggie: Here we are, at the Pikeville Hillbilly Days Festival, here with one of my book clients who has come back just to see me because he had some very nice things to say about Markman’s Home.
Carter: I read the book about a year or so back and I’ve been waiting for him to come back up here
on Hillbilly Day so I can buy some more books from him.
Reggie: And you bought the other two today, didn’t you?
Carter: I bought the other two.
Reggie: Markman’s Cave and Xortal, Listen to the Rocks, Book One. Well, what did you like about
Markman’s Home?
Carter: So, the best thing I like about Markman’s Home, I love the post-apocalyptic setting …
Reggie: In Kentucky.
Carter: In Kentucky. In Kentucky. And with a lot of books like that, you know they change scenes, settings, and other things like that, but one thing that was in this book was the map, and then you had the encyclopedia explaining everything. But the biggest thing I like about that book was it wasn’t really just focused on one character. It wasn’t a point-A-to-point-B book. It was like an onion. There were many, many layers to it that made the whole story.
Reggie: Ah, that’s fabulous. And you liked the Triad King, didn’t you?
Carter: I loved it! Loved it!
Reggie: Uh huh, uh huh. And were you surprised at the old man, Jacob, and what he ended up doing?
Carter: Yes.
Reggie: I see.
Carter: Insane! I got to that and I wouldn’t have even have thought what happened would happen.
Reggie: Oh, isn’t that excellent?
Carter: My favorite part of the book was when they got blockaded into the back of that cave and had to try to figure out how to get out of there. And the emotion and everything that was conveyed during that time was riveting.
Reggie: Oh, perfect. Riveting, he says.
Carter: So, I always read the Hunger Games books as a kid, and always really enjoyed them. But I’ve never been able to find, really, any books that kind of even scratch the surface of that. Well, this one, it’s just- it was the way that it’s written; the information is almost layered into the book. You actually have to think about it and actually read the book. I really enjoyed the illustration because it wasn’t very, very fine-detailed,so you’re still able to paint your own picture in your mind of what’s going on in the story. It just gives you a general idea.
Reggie: I tell you, it’s a wonderful thing to hear someone who enjoyed my writing, and I thank you for coming back up here. And I hope I see you every year, and you tell me what you think of these other two, right?
Carter: Oh, I will.
Reggie: Excellent. Excellent. Thank you both.
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