On Finish One of the Best Novels I Have Ever Read

I had first heard about Christopher Rice while perusing the Anne Rice's entry on Wikipedia.org. While I am not a fan of horror novels, especially ones of the vampire variety, but when I found out that her son, Christopher Rice, wrote thriller novels, I immediately logged onto his website and read about the four books he has published to date. His first one was published in 2000 and it's called A Density of Souls. So I immediately went to iTunes and I downloaded the book on Tuesday and as of 4:15 PM today I finished it. It was over eight and a half hours of the excitment and raw emotion and I'm sure that if I had it in book form, I wouldn't have been able to sit it down.

The story's central characters are Stephen Conlin, Meredith Ducote, Greg Darby and Brandon Charbonnet, four characters who are the closest of friends in childhood. Once high school starts, the four of them go their separate ways: Greg and Brandon become football players, Meredith a cheerleader, and Stephen a part of the drama department at Cannon, a prep school in New Orleans. As the years past, once close friends become bitter enemies as anger, hate, and death rage against the backdrop of New Orleans.

This was a beautiful, intricate tale where the author ties every loose string into a neat little bow by the novel's end. I literally fell in love with this book and I want to write things that make me feel the way this novel did. The prose was flawless, the characters heartbreakingly realistic, and the plot was neatly woven and carefully thought out. Most of all, this novel has inspired me to read more of Christopher Rice's books and to start writing even more.