Book Review

Basic Details:

Book Title: The Sand Fiddlers

Subtitle: A Rogue Green Beret's Escape From the Memories of Vietnam

Author: Les Burns

Genre: Action & Adventure

Part of a series? Yes

Order in series: 1

Best read after earlier books in series?

Available: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60583352-the-sand-fiddlers-a-rogue-green-beret-s-escape-from-the-memories-of-vi

Overall score:

I scored this book 4.5/5

⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

Short Summary of the book:

Alex has returned from Vietnam after going rogue to avenge his team. He will leave the army with an honourable discharge in a few days. Searching for a peaceful quiet, he finds a beach. However, the quiet is disturbed by a mysterious girl with a dark secret. Is all as it seems?

What I liked about the book:

This book was a pageturner and action-packed.

What I didn’t like about the book:

There was nothing to dislike in this book.

My favourite bits in the book:

How Alex determined whether the encounter was real.

My least favourite bits in the book:

There are none.

Any further books in the series? Any more planned by this author?

This is the first book in the series and I wonder what will happen next with Alex. Will he find the mysterious girl?

What books could this be compared to and why?

This is a book of adventure and psychology.

Recommendation:

In summary, I would recommend this book for the following readers:

Children No

Young Adult Yes

Adult Yes

If you like action and adventure, this book may be the book for you.

I’m certainly looking forward to reading more by this author.

Book Description by Author:

Alex Driscoll, a US Army Special Forces combat veteran, seeks solitude on an isolated section of beach while awaiting a discharge forced upon him due to an unauthorized eighteen-month mission to avenge the torture and butchering of his teammates at the hands of a Viet Cong death squad. A mysterious blonde-haired woman shows up unexpectedly and ruins his plans for seclusion. Suspecting she is either a war protestor or sent by the Criminal Investigation Division of the Army’s Military Police, he tries to keep her distant. His suspicion dissipates when she reveals her lack of modesty and disclosure of childhood sexual abuse, retaliation, and possibly murder in a past as dark as his own. She claims she only seeks answers about the demons possessing a former friend who didn’t return from the same jungle. The strangers are drawn closer throughout the day and night, only for him to discover the circumstances of the former friend aren’t what they seemed. Torn between reality and fantasy, his realization that he has fallen in love may have come too late to save the developing romance.

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