Review: Pigeon Blood Red by Ed Duncan
My Thoughts:
A fast-paced, entertaining, and binge-worthy read
★★★★
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Synopsis
For underworld enforcer Richard "Rico" Sanders, it seemed like an ordinary job. Retrieve his gangster boss's priceless pigeon-blood red ruby necklace and teach the double-dealing cheat who stole it a lesson. A job like a hundred before it. But the chase quickly goes sideways and takes Rico from the mean streets of Chicago to sunny Honolulu, where the hardened hit man finds himself in uncharted territory when a couple of innocent bystanders are accidentally embroiled in the crime. As Rico pursues his new targets, the hunter and his prey develop an unlikely respect for one another and Rico is faced with a momentous decision: follow his orders to kill the couple whose courage and character have won his admiration, or refuse and endanger the life of the woman he loves?
My Review:
The day the publisher offered me a copy of this book, I knew it would take a month to arrive here and I was curious to know what others were saying about it. So I checked out the reviews and all were so mixed I was starting to doubt it was a book for me. First of the cover of this book is so stunning I loved. I been having a hard time connecting lately with thrillers but this one caught my attention and for me Ed Duncan did it, and maybe even more that, with PIGEON BLOOD RED.
Picking up with partners in crime Rico and Jerry looking out for the priceless necklace of rubies that was given to them by their boss to take care of it. Frank was the boos who give them the task to take care of the necklace so we follow Rico and his co-worker as they try to get it back. Before I go any further in discussing this fantastic read, I want to address the meaning of “Pigeon-Blood Red”: It’s the most desirable color a ruby can have the legend says that the first two drops of blood that come from a freshly killed pigeon are this same rich red color. But in this book it refers to the necklace Rico is trying to get that has 16 matched pigeon-blood red rubies.
That being said, let’s talk about the characters which I loved, our beloved Rico is good looking and has that bad boy vibe that we women can’t resist, with an amazing body he the kind of men that are a mystery totally distant, honest and loyal to the bones. He the one you want to have near when something bad happens, but if you want him to cry with you over a movie that’s not him. His boss Franks knows that no matter how Rico is going to get back that necklace because that’s him and it’s part of his professional behavior.
On the other hand we get Jerry slender and short a bit average. He doesn’t has that natural instinct Rico has because he’s always thinking on impressive others or get the highest praise. For me he was more like just Rico’s sidekick and nothing else, he wasn’t that spectacular but he was there in the right moment to be a distracting or act tough.
As the action moves and they don’t find the necklace, Rico and Jerry go behind Robert McDuffie – he’s a millionaire who owns a lot of stores and keeps getting bigger every second without a rest too quickly to be something clean. That’s why when Rico and Jerry found out the necklace was gone he must be the one to stole since he was there with their boss and then puff gone. They pursue Robert to find him in Hawaii giving the rubies to his wife. Then when they got this the action captures you so much is hard to put it down, you just want to know if Rico kills Robert o not? And then who was that woman if she wasn’t McDuffie’s wife?
And we see this side of Rico, in which he wants a normal life – no more killing, no more fighting, no more doubting each one around you and a new place to start a new beginning with his girlfriend.
What we get in Pigeon-Blood Red is a visceral addictive, amped –up Rico Vs. a thieves story that will keep you on the edge of your seat with depth characters and an interesting plot that makes you keeping turning the pages. I’m officially back to thrillers but I rate this 4 because I was bit confusing of how the POV’s were used here one paragraph one character and the other another so it was a bit distracting but merely an option of a fussy reader.
Overall, is a book with less than 200 pages a quick and amped up red that is going to keep you in your seat.
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