The Last King : A Maceo Redfield Novel (Strivers Row)

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Summary: An ambitious and successful endeavor
Review: What I most admire about Nichelle Tramble as a writer is her fearlessness. It takes remarkable courage for a female author to take on the voice of a male narrator. But only sentences into both "The Dying Ground" and "The Last King," the reader forgets that these books come not from the world-weary and hard-edged (though perceptive and sensitive) Maceo, but from Ms. Tramble. "The Last King" is satisfying in all the right ways: compelling characters, a riveting plot, and, most importantly, a likeable and authentic narrator.

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Summary: Excellent!
Review: When I saw the cover and read the intro for the first book.(The Dying Ground) I was hooked. The way she describes characters personality , the descriptions of places, just a mesmerizing novel. I was very excited to hear that another one was in the works. She has not disappointed me .I had the honor to hear the Author Nichelle Tramble read the prologue at one of her readings. It brought tears to my eyes.

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Summary: Great follow-up to The Dying Ground
Review: While I loved Tramble's first book, The Dying Ground, I was even more pleased with her follow-up. The characters, story and themes were outstanding, but what really affected me was the quality of Tramble's writing. In The Dying Ground, she recreated the world of Oakland in the late 1980s; in this book, there is the same attention to detail, but a compressed sparsity of language that fuels the tension, propelling the reader to make an all-nighter of The Last King. Well done!