7/3/2023 0 Comments Kissing the rain kevin brooksThe good news is that being a key witness in a police investigation earns Moo a respite from his classmates' bullying. Then one night Moo witnesses what seems to be a road-rage incident, culminating in murder. Overweight and nearly friendless, the teen has always sought solace on a bridge overlooking the local motorway. The book opens on the night before Moo is due to perform a mysterious deed (which is revealed only at the novel's end) as he whiles away the hours by recalling the complicated chain of events that has led him to this moment. The style may not be to everyone's taste, but it allows readers to get inside the head of 15-year-old narrator Mike "Moo" Nelson. Ness-but whatever it is, whatever he's got, he wants Here the attention-grabbing first-person narrative unspools as a funky, impressionistic hybrid of stream-of-consciousness and instant-messaging slang ("I dunno what it ΒΈ and also demonstrates the author's range. Brooks's gritty and gripping third novel shares the noir style of his first book, Martyn Pig
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