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THE FINAL CURVE Reviewed by RAWSISTAZ
RAW Rating: 3.5 (out of 5)
In THE FINAL CURVE by Madge D. Owens, politicians are having car accidents, dying in ravines and on the sides of roads. They always have an empty bottle of bourbon in the car, even though their blood alcohol content doesn’t show excessive amounts of alcohol. The first death happened ten years ago. Now, within the span of a few weeks three others have died. A letter left by a dead man who was a janitor at the capitol implicates Marcus Norwood with the three newly dead men. Marcus had been heard having arguments with each of the politicians and the death from ten years ago was his grandfather.
His half sister also works at the capitol and she hates Marcus, even though she doesn’t know he’s related to her. Marcus is angry because his grandparents kept his sister Renae after their mother died, but gave him away to his father’s family and didn’t keep in touch. His father was a drug addict and his aunts wanted nothing to do with him. He had a nightmare of a life. Is he the man guilty of all these crimes? Or is Renae attempting to frame him?
Madge D. Owens keeps the mystery going until the end of the book. So many people come under suspicion and it’s impossible to tell who really might have done it. It was an interesting book but sometimes the story line got deeply into politics and took away a bit of the suspense and the urge to figure out who did the killings. There were quite a few characters and sometimes it was easy to forget who they all were. However, it was a clever mystery.
—Reviewed by Alice Holman, RAWSISTAZ.com
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TO SILENCE HER MEMORY Reviewed by RAWSISTAZ
To Silence Her Memory was described as “a joy to read” by The RAWSISTAZ Reviewers. In a review posted on their Web site and Amazon.com on January 14, 2005, the first novel by Madge D. Owens received a RAW Rating of 3.5 on a scale of 1 to 5.
“I was very thrilled about this rating,” said Owens. “I was honored that reviewers of the stature of RAWSISTAZ would take the time to review my book. RAWSISTAZ commands tremendous influence in the literary community, and I was pleased that the reviewer found my book ‘a joy to read.’“
In the three-paragraph review, reviewer L. Raven James described Silence as a book with “a unique story line, it holds the readers’ interest. . .” She further writes, “Doreen, Matthew and Byron are a breath of fresh air in terms of characters. They are young, intelligent, professional African-Americans who have redeeming qualities. The villain is also a unique one with multiple layers of lies, deceit and nastiness.”
To see the review in its entirety, visit Amazon.com.
For more information about To Silence Her Memory visit: madgeowenswritepage.com or contact Madge at writepagemo@yahoo.com.
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Fulton County Arts & Culture's Southwest Arts Center
Southwest Arts Center
915 New Hope Road, Atlanta, GA 30331
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