"Overall, I found Rem’s Chance to be an interesting read and I think that it would appeal to readers of both contemporary and mystery fiction."
A chance encounter sees old friends reunite, old flames rekindled and old passions explored anew. Rem Bruxvoort is at a liminal place in his life. Middle aged, separating from his fiancé and still feeling the fallout of the pandemic one year on he is a character that is somewhat adrift until a chance reunion with a former bandmate that leads to a search for a lost master tape and opens more doors.
Rem’s Chance offers us a snippet of these character’s lives, reflections on the past and how things have changed and rediscovering the passions of their youth. Simmering underneath however is a mystery of a threat, “the man” driven to take retribution against one of the other characters.
The storyline flows well, and the perspective changes allow the significant characters to develop more depth. The mystery running parallel to Rem’s story and his reunion with Gene adds an interesting twist but I felt that the main themes of the book focus on nostalgia, a reclaiming of the past and rediscovering the things we loved when we were younger that got lost amongst the mundanities of adulthood.
I liked the comparison between Rem and Gene’s characters, how one becomes quite bland but successful in society’s view, and one who is perhaps not where society expects him to be at the start of the book but has a more solid foundation of personality. Rem seems to always stay true to who he is and I believe in the end may be the most happy of the characters.
Almost like a coming of age but with middle-aged characters, I felt that was the key takeaway message. Overall, I found Rem’s Chance to be an interesting read and I think that it would appeal to readers of both contemporary and mystery fiction.
Charlotte Walker, A LoveReading Ambassador
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Available on Amazon Rem Bruxvoort is forty-six and not getting any younger. The former guitarist of The Bubbling Samovars—an obscure nineties punk band—is still feeling fallout from the pandemic.
Rem's Chance features in the following genres: Indie Author Books, Indie Books We Love, Recommendations, Literary Fiction, Fiction
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Rem's Chance was written by Dave J. Andrae and published by Kaji-Pup Press
