When a handsome childhood friend reappears, Amra makes choices that Zainab considers so 1950s-choices that involve the perfect Banarasi silkĭress and a four-bedroom house in the suburbs. What they didn’t count on? Unlikely men and geopolitical Together they’ve thwarted proposal-slinging aunties,Ĭultural expectations, and the occasional bigot to succeed in theirĬareers. Her best friend Amra Abbas is about to make partner at a topīoston law firm.

This is a fast-paced story of intense emotions and hair-raising action Rep Reads – 12.04.13Īs they plumb their drug-addled brains for clues to what happened, you get a glimpse into their seemingly worthless lives and wonder how you could ever root for these people – until you meet their tormentors.Mir has just landed a job working for a post-feminist, Republican SenateĬandidate. This is no gentle tale of vigilantes turning addicts into proper people again. Readers sympathize a little, despise a lot, and gasp often. While the premise of the story is a little appalling, that is the very thing that keeps you glued to it… Beauty In Ruins – 22.08.13īeneath the cruelty of its Survivor type challenge, shark-infested waters, and crippling withdrawal pains, this is a story of human beings at war as much with themselves as one another… A Librarians Take – 12.08.13 The plot rockets from the very beginning. Sex, drugs, betrayal, violence, there is absolutely nothing dull in this story. You know within the first few pages that this is not going to be your average thriller. Kent Messum’s Bait is a thrilling debut it provides a terrifying look at the lengths to which addicts will go to get high, even when they know the odds have been stacked against them. Part Jaws and part Saw, with a little bit of The Most Dangerous Game thrown in for fun, J. I’d love to see this as a movie, and its length would also have made it the perfect one hour Twilight Zone or Night Gallery episode… Tina’s Book Reviews – 30.08.13īait not only recreates a Jaws nightmare, but also adds contemporary drama by adding each persons background story with sharp writing and well developed personas… Florida Book Review – 29.08.13 Oh yes ladies and gentlemen, this is a winner, a white-knuckled page-turner with a gaping maw of shark’s teeth ready to take a chomp out of your ass at any moment. Bait is shades of grey and black, a social commentary on good people done wrong and turning against the establishment in the worst way possible… Busty Book Bimbo – 01.09.13 This isn’t simply a story about bad versus good, not when the protagonists have done a decent amount of bad things in their addicted lives. Online Reviews: Bewitched Bookworms – 12. Though they are considered burned out junkies in the eyes of society, faced with their own mortality the addicts prove to have ingenuity and empathy for their fellow man. Kent Messum unites six addicts under a common goal: feeding their drug habit.

Bait by j kent messum