Beat the Reaper Book Review and Giveaway

WHAT THIS BOOK IS ABOUT

Dr. Peter Brown is an intern at Manhattan’s worst hospital, with a talent for medicine, a shift from hell, and a past he’d prefer to keep hidden. Whether it’s a blocked circumflex artery or a plan to land a massive malpractice suit, he knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men.

Pietro “Bearclaw” Brnwna is a hitman for the mob, with a genius for violence, a well-earned fear of sharks, and an overly close relationship with the Federal Witness Relocation Program. More likely to leave a trail of dead gangsters than a molecule of evidence, he’s the last person you want to see in your hospital room.

Nicholas LoBrutto, aka Eddy Squillante, is Dr. Brown’s new patient, with three months to live and a very strange idea: that Peter Brown and Pietro Brnwa might-just might-be the same person …

Now, with the mob, the government, and death itself descending on the hospital, Peter has to buy time and do whatever it takes to keep his patients, himself, and his last shot at redemption alive. To get through the next eight hours-and somehow beat the reaper.

Spattered in adrenaline-fueled action and bone-saw-sharp dialogue, BEAT THE REAPER is a debut thriller so utterly original you won’t be able to guess what happens next, and so shockingly entertaining you won’t be able to put it down.

THEMES IN THIS BOOK

MY REVIEW

Beat the Reaper is the type of book that you will gulp down quickly so you can find out what crazy thing is going to happen next. What a ride the author Josh Bazell takes us on. That ride includes a doctor who is in the eyewitness protection program, the mob, a beautiful girl and a bad guy by the name of “Skinflick.” What else Beat the Reaper has is a lot of profanity and violence. Normally, this is the type of book that doesn’t appeal to me, but underneath all of the dark aspects is a man trying to find redemption and some peace from his past. And it is hilarious. I found myself laughing out loud quite a bit. Another appealing aspect of “Beat the Reaper” are the footnotes. They are an added treat. As I was reading, I could definitely see the movie easily in my mind. The day after I finished, I read that Leonardo Dicaprio is set to star in the movie. I hope it turns out as good as the book. One more tip before you read the book, and you should read it – The last few pages are so shocking and will make you squirm, so be prepared to either skim over them or be grossed out. Once you start reading you won’t want to stop, so make sure you clear your schedule for that day.  Oh, and ignore the awful book cover.

MY GRADE A-

Beat the Reaper is available everywhere and at Amazon. You can visit the author’s website to read an excerpt and he even has a hilarious game you can play at www.beatthereaper.com

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Fall Books to Movie Preview

Entertainment Weekly has posted a list of the most anticipated movies for the Fall and several of them are based on books.  I am so excited to see all of these!  Which ones are you most excited to see?  I’m sure you know which one I want to see most:)

NICK & NORAH’S INFINITE PLAYLIST  Oct. 3  Michael Cera, Kat Dennings, Ari Graynor  Mixing Juno’s smart-mouthed humor with the one-crazy-night setup of Can’t Hardly Wait, this teencom follows the adventures of music snobs Nick (Cera) and Norah (Dennings) as they fall in love while chasing their favorite band — and Norah’s drunk BFF (Graynor) — around the streets of NYC.

THE ROAD Nov. 14 Viggo Mortensen, Charlize TheronCormac McCarthy’s 2006 post-apocalyptic novel about a dying man who tries to lead his young son to safety was a critical darling that grabbed the attention of readers and, yes, even Oprah (not to mention us — The Road nabbed the No. 1 spot on EW’s New Classics book list). So why should the film adaptation be any different? Though certainly bleak, the film has Oscar written all over it. And when has Mortensen ever let us down?

TWILIGHT Dec. 12 Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson Since Breaking Dawn, Stephenie Meyer’s final installment in her teen vampire-centric franchise, bowed at No. 1 on nearly all the best-seller lists, why not catch up to tween readers nationwide — and enjoy some vampire eye candy — by seeing the movie version of book 1, which follows a girl (Stewart) who falls in love with a handsome bloodsucker (Pattinson).

THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON Dec. 25  Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett In an effort to make people of all ages feel bad about the way they look, Brad Pitt reteams with his Fight Club director, David Fincher, for this bittersweet fantasy about a man who ages in reverse from 80 back down to infancy. But can baby Brad actually hope to out-cute Shiloh

MARLEY & ME  Dec. 25  Owen Wilson, Jennifer Aniston  Adapted from John Grogan’s best-selling novel — a memoir about life with a hopeless yellow Lab named Marley — comes this romcom about a journalist (Wilson, in his first role since his reported suicide attempt last summer) and his wife (Aniston) who move to Miami and decide to adopt a puppy that would inevitably become a bigger part of the family than they ever expected.

REVOLUTIONARY ROAD Dec. 26 Kate Winslet, Leonardo DiCaprio Don’t miss the boat on this one: Titanic stars Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio are back together for a decidedly unsentimental portrait of a marriage, based on Richard Yates’ 1961 novel.