Dice Angel
by Brian Rouff
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Book Reviews of Dice Angel
Book Review: Its not all about craps!
Summary: 5 Stars
Judging by the title I expected a tale centering around the game of craps. Little did I know the game wouldnt even come of mention until page 102! The book reads fluidly as the story comes together with endlessly entertaining dialogue and interaction. Bourne from either the creative mind of the author or people he knows all too well, the characters were painted with every crayon in the box. Right down from the ex-stock broker gone nuts to the cop he used to play football with in high school, everybody projected vivdly in my mind as they developed.Centering around the life of one man Jimmy Delaney, you get a first person view of his world. A common guy caught up in a bind stemming from a brother-in-law who put the family bar in jepardy by leaving him without any real hope of saving himself from ruin at the hands of the IRS. To us, Jimmy is a regular guy with the same problems we all have, but to a young girl who calls him Jimmy Daddy he is a hero. Add in an endless line of friends who look up to him to be the strong one and an ex-wife with her hand out, his burdon of responsiblity seems to have no end. Who's to save the poor chap? Enter the Dice Angel, a kooky throwback from 1975 with a box of pixie dust under one arm and clothes so bright she'd have to be good at craps to afford all the batteries.
A refreshing change of pace from the common genre stories that plague every movie released, I wouldnt mine seeing a storyline like this about a regular Joe on the big screen. Though not reality TV, it's still fiction but you can walk away with one thing. No matter how down and out you get, they can never take your hope away.
Book Review: Best Vegas Book
Summary: 5 Stars
This was an easy read. Light and crisp with some nice surprises.Loved it can not wait for the second Rouff book.
Book Review: Breezy book to read
Summary: 5 Stars
Dice Angel is loaded ! I thoroughly enjoyed it.Though catastrophe after catastrophe kept piling up on
Jimmy D, there was an entertaining sense of fun all
along the way, characters you care about, plus a lot
of *Golden Nuggets* you want to read twice.
Book Review: Can't do better than Vegas
Summary: 5 Stars
Brian Rouff delivered an excellent novel. One of the best books about Vegas that I have ever read. Rouff does a great job of humanizing the characters, and describing Vegas as it really is. Dice Angel is definitely a page turner, with plenty of laughs and a little bit of mysticism. I highly recommend it.Book Review: Dice Angel by Brian Rouff
Summary: 5 Stars
Brian Rouff's clever, witty, writing style captures the realLas Vegas. The glamour and glitz, grit and sand, excitement
and everyday boredom of its unique lifestyle. His characters
are people I know, see, and pass on the streets as I dodge the
"Nevada state bush," those darn orange construction cones that
decorate the streets.
Dice Angel's twists and turns will whip and toss and thrill youlike the roller coaster ride at the New York, New York. It's a stay up all night, edge of the seat read right up to
the literary, tip you upside down, ending.