Minnesota Author – Book Journey

I didn’t want to go to the gym today.

While my weekend was mostly low key, I was at my lap top for most of it – working on a newsletter for the Friends of The Library, sending out information on the Mardi Gras event, updating lists, planning notes for a Camp meeting, and working on a website for a new business. My new roll in my job, has made my weekends a little more “working weekends” to get in my non profit duties… not complaining, just still finding my balance.

So…

With a full agenda today – gym, Friends Board Meeting, Author at the Library at noon, a meeting at 1:30, a few hours of work and a few pics taken at a Wine Class later for marketing…. I was really debating the gym and arguing with myself back and forth that going was good and going was rockstarish and going would make the rest easier and.…

And then Mother Nature stepped in and I woke up to this:

...WINTER STORM WARNING NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM CST TUESDAY...

* WHAT...Heavy mixed precipitation. Additional snow accumulations
of 6 to 9 inches, with localized amounts up to 10 inches, and
ice accumulations of up to one tenth of an inch are expected.

* WHERE...South Cass and Crow Wing Counties.

* WHEN...Until 6 AM CST Tuesday.

* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Plan on difficult travel conditions,
including during the evening commute. Tree branches could fall.
Winds gusting as high as 45 mph will cause areas of blowing and
drifting snow.

Weather in Minnesota can change EVERYTHING.

By 6:30 am the notifications were sent out by text that all Group Fitness classes were cancelled

By 7:30 am Friends Board members started conversing by email – what to do about our Board meeting and our Author event?

….

and my day has potential of change….

Then…. Minnesota kicks in….

The Authors… are already on their way. We made the decision that if the authors can drive three hours to get to us… we can have our board meeting for those of us who can get there. I live right on the State Hwy and its a straight stretch for me so I can do it. The rest of the day will play out as well.

On other notes. I bought a book. *insert gasp here*

Well, you know.. sometimes a girl needs a little reassuring. 😉

I have reviews to write – food to talk about, book events to talk about… just need to get ‘er done.

How is your Monday shaping up?

Yes, my Esken’s gush continues from yesterdays posting of The Heavens May Fall. A brilliant writer who I have found to capture a bounty of talent within a binding. Allen Esken’s never ceases to surprise me.

~Sheila

Detective Max Rupert has never come to terms with his wife’s death, the result of a hit and run. When evidence is found that proves Max’s suspicions, that her death was no accident but cold-blooded murder, Max falls into a world of grief and despair and an unquenchable desire to seek revenge on those involved.

As Max follows the clues he becomes more consumed to the point of not carrying what his decisions going forward could mean for himself. When his obsessive need for revenge brings him to a cold and frozen lake on the far outstretches of Minnesota somewhere where his actions may never be brought to light, Max steps over a line that he himself had convicted many people for less.

Whoa and whoa. Seriously whoa. This book, and its nature really starts in Heavens May Fall as you learn more about Max’s growing obsession with his dead wife. As heaven’s May Fall comes to a close, facts (bread crumbs) are dropped into the reader’s mind that all that surrounds Jenni Rupert’s death is not as it was to seem. Deep Dark Descending really is all about what Max does with this new-found knowledge that his friend Boady placed in his care.

Deep Dark Descending is dark, however I will say understandably so. If you follow Max’s love for his wife and her untimely death as well as other factors that are revealed in this book, you can indeed follow Max down the spiral rabbit hole of Deep Dark Descending.

For myself, I am fascinated with what Allen Esken’s brings into a book. Knowing his background as an attorney makes it all the more fascinating for me as I imagine he is pulling from his own experiences and then adding his own spin to what happens when someone is pushed right to their breaking point.

I devoured Deep Dark Descending on audio, listening every chance I had to know what would happen as Max uncovers hard truths and makes even harder decisions of what to do with these truths now that they are fully revealed.