📖 BOOK REVIEW⠀📚 Razorblade Tears
AUTHOR: S.A. Cosby @leoking8473
Publisher: Flatiron Books
Stars: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ + 🐢
Published: July 6, 2021
The Review 📚 Razorblade Tears
✨ The Title/Cover Draw:
- This was the last book of the 5 favorites for @bookofthemonth that I hadn’t read yet.
💜 What I liked:
- The book was fast paced and I fell into it swiftly. It was one of those reads that is important, giving exposure to both racism and sexual preference.
😱 What I didn’t like:
- I expected this to be more of a mystery than it was however there is a great twist that falls neatly into the story.
🚦 My face at the end: 😳
💭 5 Reasons to Read:
- 1. Revenge
- 2. Family
- 3. Acceptance
- 4. Love
- 5. Mystery
🕧 Mini-Summary:
- 2 fathers set off on a journey of revenge for their sons.
All thoughts and opinions are my own.
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📘 Summary 📚 Razorblade Tears
A Black father. A white father. Two murdered sons. A quest for vengeance.
Ike Randolph has been out of jail for fifteen years, with not so much as a speeding ticket in all that time. But a Black man with cops at the door knows to be afraid.
The last thing he expects to hear is that his son Isiah has been murdered, along with Isiah’s white husband, Derek. Ike had never fully accepted his son but is devastated by his loss.
Derek’s father Buddy Lee was almost as ashamed of Derek for being gay as Derek was ashamed his father was a criminal. Buddy Lee still has contacts in the underworld, though, and he wants to know who killed his boy.
Ike and Buddy Lee, two ex-cons with little else in common other than a criminal past and a love for their dead sons, band together in their desperate desire for revenge. In their quest to do better for their sons in death than they did in life, hardened men Ike and Buddy Lee will confront their own prejudices about their sons and each other, as they rain down vengeance upon those who hurt their boys.
Provocative and fast-paced, S. A. Cosby’s Razorblade Tears is a story of bloody retribution, heartfelt change – and maybe even redemption.