Linda Gould covered her bases for excitement, international
intrigue, and fraternal jealousy in her novel, Let’s Play Ball.
Superbly written with a friendly voice combined with many intuitive
observations of people’s behavior, Linda Gould fills “her ball pen” with a cast
of characters ideally stereotyped for her clever plot. She uses Miranda and Jessica, two fraternal
twins as reflective protagonists. By
doing this she enabled her narration to be voiced through the intimate knowledge
of a twin sister, a person that has lived each moment of her sister’s past in a
mirror image of life impressions. They
have an understanding of each other only a twin can understand, and their
relationship is brilliantly challenged, analogous to sports competition, such
as baseball teams.
Whereas Miranda has taken a course of choosing a
conservative family life with security and routine, Jessica has sought the
limelight of high profile sports. She
has, what she believes, a predictable and loving relationship with a highly
celebrated baseball player when all of a sudden he disappears. The circumstances of his evanescence stirs
immediate speculation as a matrix of explanations are pondered by friends, teammates,
family and the police.
As a baseball game can be elucidated as being a long,
seamlessly uneventful game separated by moments of sheer excitement, so
characterizes her book. Linda Gould does
retain the reader’s interest and knowledge base of events as she doles out
background information unfolding her story in an artful manner. Let’s
Play Ball combines the edgy feelings of an ominous police investigation,
the intrigue of a missing person of high profile and the cerebral international
politics of US-Cuban relationships. Her
book scores “runs” during each chapter, and her suspense hits a “home run.”
Combining spirited debates on social issues in her book, Let’s Play Ball is on deck for the
intellectual reader that enjoys the Sunday morning editorial news circuit, or
perhaps better stated as the intellectual that would rather be at the ball
game. Her award winning book, receiving
iUniverse Editor’s Choice, is masterfully set with an impeccable galley clad in
original cover art of a baseball player swinging in motion. But if you look closely at the uniform, can
you identify the team? Perhaps it’s one
you never heard of, until now.
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