Reviewed by Becca

TITLE: Fade Out

SERIES: Boystown #13

AUTHOR: Marshall Thornton

PUBLISHER: self-published

LENGTH: 214 pages

RELEASE DATE: January 28, 2020

BLURB:

The Lambda Award-winning Boystown Mystery series comes to a close with Boystown 13: Fade Out. When a box containing a woman’s corpse shows up at his doorstep, Private Investigator Nick Nowak finds himself accused of murder. The police are convinced it’s Rita Lindquist—a woman who once shot Nick. Their case is thin, but they and the state’s attorney are determined to prosecute him. Recent events have left Nick emotionally gutted and he’s not even sure he wants to fight back. But when he’s mysteriously bailed out of jail, he can’t help by try to solve the mysteries in front of him. Who posted his bond? Why is the state’s attorney trying to railroad him? And what’s the real identity of the girl in the box?

REVIEW:

This book really blew my mind. I really hate cliffhangers and between the end of the book and the author’s note, it feels like an ending almost. And the book is definitely a cliffhanger. I don’t know how to feel about that. I’m hoping there’s going to be one more book, at least. This one, I think tore me up more than the rest of them, and that’s saying a lot. But there is just so much happening in this book that just gets to you. And with the way it ended, I feel like I’m hanging. But as always, this series and this book has just been amazing. The way it was written and everything. I’m just so mind blown right now. I’m at such a loss.

I think what gets me with this one out of all of them, is that in all the other books, Nick keeps fighting and fighting. No matter how many times he gets knocked down, shot, stabbed, whatever, he keeps going. He keeps fighting for the people that come to him, fighting for his friends and family. But in this one, he’s just totally dejected and lost. When they come arrest him for a murder he didn’t commit, he just blindly goes. He doesn’t fight it, he doesn’t do much of anything, even give smartass comments. And that’s not Nick. But with all he’s been through lately, I can’t blame him. And now he’s being set up for a murder and he knows immediately who’s behind it. Especially when they are saying who it is that’s been murdered. He knows immediately that that is wrong, who set him up and why. But now he has to find a way to prove it and before more people die. But more people do die and he’s in it up to his eyeballs. Everyone is wanting something from him, everyone is pulling at him from all directions, and trying to hem him in where he doesn’t want to be. And he has to fix it somehow.

Seeing Nick so downtrodden and not fighting for all he’s worth about killed me. I’ve seen him low a lot in this series, but this one was just like he knew there was no hope left whatsoever. In anything. And that killed me. You just want to reach in the book and fix it for him. Smack some people around, shake them, or something. It’s just….I just don’t know even know. I’m still just mind blown by everything in this book. Marshall doesn’t disappoint in this one either. I can’t give it away. You definitely have to read the book. But I’m telling you, you may need a few tissues with this one. It’s a rough one. Things have definitely changed and may never be the same again.

I know this probably isn’t the best review, and I’m sorry if it’s not. I can NOT stress to you enough, if you have not read this series, you need to. You’re missing out if you haven’t. This book has just left me and in shock. I don’t even know where to go next with it. I’m hoping with all that is in me there’s another coming at some point. If not, I may cry even worse.

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