My Book Review of 'Heavy Are The Stones'

Hi. Today I’m reviewing this book, Heavy Are The Stones. This book is hard, if not impossible sometimes to put down. I mean, once I got started on this thing, I could not stop. I mean, J.D. Barker and Christine Daigle wrote this. J.D. Barker. I’m just going to read this from the back because I just thought this was so cool.

J.D. Barker is the New York Times and international bestselling author of numerous novels, including Dracul and The Fourth Monkey. He is currently collaborating with James Patterson, so he likes to collaborate with people. His books have been translated into two dozen languages, sold in more than 150 countries and optioned for both film and television. Very cool.

Christine Daigle. A clinical neuropsychologist by day Christine Daigle’s work includes brain-computer interface, translating brain signals into commands that can control technology. As a writer, her novel was selected for the Pitch Wars industry mentorship program. An anthology, including her short fiction, was a finalist for an Aurora Award. Her co-authored pen-named work on Kindle Vella was consecutively one of the top 250 serials for several years.

Well, all I can say is, “Wow, what a collaboration!” A fantastic one and it does make you kind of think about the power of collaborating with people with whom you don’t have necessarily the same skillset. There’s benefit in it. There’s benefit in collaboration, in getting other points of view. Writing fiction collaboratively, I think is one of the best things I’ve ever done, and I’ve done it on screenwriting only, but it could be done for novels too, like this one, which is so good that I could totally see this being made into a show or a movie.

I forgot to tell you what the book is about. It’s basically about a serial killer trying to get another serial killer released by blackmailing a cop. There, I said it. I think that pretty much sums it up. It’s a female cop and she has a terrible secret, which is not a huge surprise actually. But nonetheless, while you’re thinking about what that secret is and maybe knowing what it is, suspecting strongly what it is, it’s just gripping, the whole time. It really is.

It creates a serious dilemma for our protagonist, this female cop. And when you have a dilemma like that, it always makes for good viewing as well as good reading. That’s why I thought it would make a great show. That and a few other things. There are a lot of things that could be done visually that would be interesting. Anyway, that’s all I had to say about that. That’s it for me then. I love the book and that’s all I had to say. Talk to you later. Be seeing you!