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Dog River Blues (A Wes Darling Sailing Mystery Book 2) Kindle Edition
Mike Jastrzebski (Author) Find all the books, read about the author, and more. See search results for this author |
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Don’t go into the Bayou.
Wes is a step away from death and all because he wanted to meet his estranged family. It’s not that they’re bad people. They just keep hooking him up with bad people.
Like the guy named Fish or the ex-CIA jerk who was looking for an easy score. Then there’s the Bayou filled with hungry gators.
Sailing’s never been so much fun.
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication date11 August 2011
- File size4461 KB
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- ASIN : B005GXROUU
- Publisher : Write On The Water Press (11 August 2011)
- Language : English
- File size : 4461 KB
- Simultaneous device usage : Unlimited
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 251 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: 642,693 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- 2,063 in Sea Adventure Fiction (Kindle Store)
- 2,144 in Sea Adventures Fiction
- 2,719 in Sea Stories
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About the author

In September of 2003 my wife, Mary, and I moved aboard our 36-foot sailboat, Rough Draft. Over the past 15 years, this move has proved to be the adventure of a lifetime. We first traveled on the inland river system from Minnesota to Mobile, Alabama. We lived in Mobile for two years docked at a small marina. Hurricane Katrina dropped our boat into a neighbor’s backyard. After rescuing the boat we then sailed to Florida where we spent three months living at a mooring in Key West.
From there we cruised up the east coast to Ft. Lauderdale where we lived on the boat and I wrote for six years. We hoisted the sails once again in the spring of 2012, traversed the Gulf Stream, and explored the Abaco Islands in the Bahamas until hurricane season sent us back to Florida. From there we sailed up to the Chesapeake, then back down to Florida where we suffered boat damage during hurricane Matthew. Five of my six books were written while living on the boat and I am currently working on the second book in my world’s worst detective series.
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Predictable at times, but I do like the Wes Darling character which carried it through. I know nothing about boats, sailing or the area but this did not matter. Looking forward to the next book and hope it will be a good price on kindle.


The story is interesting and I enjoyed all the characters except maybe Fish, a nasty guy but he was essential to the story.
Twists and turns in places that kept my mind going back and forth. It has a surprising ending.
I always wanted to live on a boat so this gives me a little taste of that too.

Wes Darling, the protagonist, is an ex-PI, so I expected him to use some of those skills to actually investigate the theft of his grandfather's ill-gotten WWII booty, or at least to find his family (that he never knew existed and whose names he didn't even know) to begin with when he arrives in Mobile. But no. He pulls up to the dock (he lives on a boat) and right off the bat, his family members have sought him out. Way too convenient that his mother made a call-ahead unbeknownst to him. This is the beginning of the theme that follows through in the book: everyone is always one-up on Wes. Wes also seems like a bumbling novice rather than a seasoned PI when he is constantly gotten the better of and having his ass beat to within an inch of his life. Not to mention, [SPOILER ALERT] when he, Jessica, and Roy show up at Fish's place the very first time and a caddy is noted to be in the driveway, I immediately remembered that Rusty drove off in a caddy earlier. Now I know it was Rusty who betrayed him to Fish. Did the PI investigator remember that? Nope. Holy moly. That was my first clue that our hero was a little too thick to be a believable ex-PI. As well as the fact that he told Rusty right off the bat about what he was there for. I thought he was nuts for spilling the beans to some complete stranger. Surely there are other ways for a true PI to get information besides telling someone you just met that you are after a stolen priceless artifact? [DONE SPOILING] And he made quite a few other mistakes and made choices and left questions unanswered that I thought were not in character with someone in his field, despite the fact that he didn't really want to take on the task and was ambivalent about learning more about his new-found family. Some of these mistakes were as simple as not being aware of his surroundings. Come on. And when you have a chance to get out of the line of sight of potential bad guys ([SPOILER] I'm thinking about the end when he hears the yacht before it comes into view and he doesn't hide...what an idiot [DONE SPOILING]), you take it, right? Not Wes. He's always too darn tired and wore out to even make a good run for it...what a wuss.
I don't want my protagonist to be perfect. After all, a good character arc should be present so we can see some growth, but don't tell me my hero is an ex-PI, then make the other secondary characters smarter than him. LOL. He also seemed to be attractive to the women of the world, but I wasn't quite sure why. The dude was a narcoleptic punching bag with no common sense. Just sayin'.
The author could have done a lot more with this story.

And he gets hurt and does no recover time. Falls in dirty water and does not get antibiotics. Gets shot and . . . well etc.
I am willing to suspend belief to read fiction, but I am not willing to turn my brain off.
This book is stupid. It's fast paced, but the pace does not hide the very ridiculousness of the characters, the scenarios or the relationships.