Flowertown by S.G. Redling [Book Review]

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Flowertown

S.G. Redling

I go to turn on my Kindle about a week ago and there is an image of a tattered fence with a biohazard sign hanging in the landscape of Smalltown U.S.A.  Sorry, but you drop an image like that in my face and you have all but marketed yourself into a sale.  I follow the link to learn more and the plot summary tells the woes of a small rural town in Iowa that became the site of a chemical spill.  The grounds and town folk were contaminated and the residents quarantined… the residents that survived that is.

Flowertown is the type of book that makes you glad Kindle was invented.  Published independently by a morning radio host, S.G. Redling, this is exactly the type of book that likely would not have been published a decade ago, but has flourished under the ability for Amazon to take low-risk, high-return on rookie authors.

Redling’s tale of residents held in drab conditions under an almost dictatorish regime of the same pharmaceutical company

BOOK REVIEW: Flowertown

Flowertown

S.G. Redling

I go to turn on my Kindle about a week ago and there is an image of a tattered fence with a biohazard sign hanging in the landscape of Smalltown U.S.A.  Sorry, but you drop an image like that in my face and you have all but marketed yourself into a sale.  I follow the link to learn more and the plot summary tells the woes of a small rural town in Iowa that became the site of a chemical spill.  The grounds and town folk were contaminated and the residents quarantined… the residents that survived that is.

Flowertown is the type of book that makes you glad Kindle was invented.  Published independently by a morning radio host, S.G. Redling, this is exactly the type of book that likely would not have been published a decade ago, but has flourished under the ability for Amazon to take low-risk, high-return on rookie authors.

Redling’s tale of residents held in drab conditions under an almost dictatorish regime of the same pharmaceutical company that caused the disaster to begin with creates a twisted irony