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I’m usually not a crime novel enthusiast. But there were many stylistic elements that kept me reading. Beverly has an abbreviated sensory experience to his words. One word similes, single descriptors that don’t tell you what layer they work on—usually because they work on many at once. The compact wording makes for a breakneck pace.
I learned a lot from reading this novel. Where I would stop and dwell, Beverly moves forward unapologetically. It worked for the characters I watched travel across the country. It worked for East, the protagonist you wish could have stayed East.
You’d expect a novel to have a climactic moment in last quarter, but you don’t expect a novel to gain pace afterwards. The denoument springs you forward even faster, without looking back at the bloodshed. That’s where the novel turned a corner for me. It’s not just a crime novel. This is literary fiction.
I wrote a lot more about the effect of the story’s end but it has too many spoilers to publish. I’d hate to see a local author not get read because some stranger who lives in the same city ruined all the fun.


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Dodgers A Novel edition by Bill Beverly Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews

It's hard to give something 5 stars, when you presume it's competing with the best in literature. But in it's genre, and for ambition, 4 weren't enough.

I knew nothing of this novel before I bought it. It's written by a white man, and uses black street language for his characters to communicate. Hat's off to having the courage to do that. I didn't find it at all offensive, but I'm white. Somehow, I don't think it would be an African American, but of course I can't say.

This book weaves in and out of minimalism, which I like. If you're looking for gang action it's not for you. Usually, "arty" writing puts me off, but I stayed engaged thougout. I thought about the characters, and wondered what would happen. The Dodgers gives a heavy nod to The Wire, but quieter. It calls Haruf, but as teenage black (boys to-) men expelled from LA. The violence is very well contextualized and it carries a greater impact for it's normalcy.

The story builds a very quiet tension, and pays nice attention to detail. But not too much...all in all plausible, entertaining, interesting, somewhat odd, and subversive. I recommend it.

Two small quibbles - the writer doesn't write women anywhere near as bravely as he writes about another ethnicity (hardly at all and as props). And donuts come out of the fryer, not the oven.
Congrats to Bill on an amazing novel. I much look forward to a possible sequel. Here's some of my thoughts on the book.

Overall, I'd say that the first chapter was my least favorite. I enjoyed things much more once the main plot of finding the judge kicked in. I actually was hoping for a bigger twist at that point-- but it reversed and focused more on East's inner journey for his fish out of water/coming of age tale.

There were some great twists throughout, though a few lacked believability. With some of the minor characters.

The prose at times was wordy and unclear-- but that's just nitpicking. This was a GREAT book. It definitely deserves a sequel-- but I hope if Bill pursues that, he chooses a strong plot for the ENTIRE novel. The characters are amazing. The complaints about them being unlikable are ridiculous. They have redeeming qualities that help the reader connect.

The author did an amazing job at making the lead likable and giving all the characters a unique voice. East was a great character to follow. Same for Walter. Ty didn't have much to like-- but he was interesting-- and that's all you can ask.
Sure the comparisons to Richard Price are inevitable, but Bill Beverly's debut novel "Dodgers" signals the arrival of a unique voice on the literary scene. When you imagine all the possible outcomes for a coming of age, gangster, road trip novel, you're more likely to expect a mess rather than a first rate novel. However, Beverly manages to create a completely original story centered around some memorable characters. The main character is East, a 15 year old drug runner overseeing a lookout crew in the projects of LA. After a police raid sets the crew back, partially the result of the carelessness of the lookout crew, East's father, Fin, sends him from LA to Wisconsin on a "hit" to kill the judge in an upcoming trial that threatens to cripple the drug empire.

East, along with his combative younger half-brother Ty, along with two equally entertaining characters, Michael and Walter, set out from the projects, The Boxes, in a nondescript minivan for Wisconsin with little more than the clothes on their back and some cash. While East is quiet and introspective, Ty is the proverbial loose cannon on the verge of snapping at the slightest provocation. The journey from LA to Wisconsin provides some memorable encounters, especially in Iowa where they are instructed in their call back to LA to pick up their weapons for the hit. However, it is the quiet moments of the ride across unfamiliar terrain that shines brightest. This America is far different from few square miles in LA that East has spent all the days and nights of his short life.

It is in the last third of the book that "Dodgers" demonstrates Beverly's talent. The pace is methodical in a completely positive way. Beverly doesn't rush the story from East's transformative encounter with Ty, to when he and Walter's paths diverge and finally through his isolated walk through Ohio and his work at the paintball facility. "Dodgers" is a remarkably accomplished novel that surprised me for being far more than an action packed thriller.
I’m usually not a crime novel enthusiast. But there were many stylistic elements that kept me reading. Beverly has an abbreviated sensory experience to his words. One word similes, single descriptors that don’t tell you what layer they work on—usually because they work on many at once. The compact wording makes for a breakneck pace.
I learned a lot from reading this novel. Where I would stop and dwell, Beverly moves forward unapologetically. It worked for the characters I watched travel across the country. It worked for East, the protagonist you wish could have stayed East.
You’d expect a novel to have a climactic moment in last quarter, but you don’t expect a novel to gain pace afterwards. The denoument springs you forward even faster, without looking back at the bloodshed. That’s where the novel turned a corner for me. It’s not just a crime novel. This is literary fiction.
I wrote a lot more about the effect of the story’s end but it has too many spoilers to publish. I’d hate to see a local author not get read because some stranger who lives in the same city ruined all the fun.