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Little Gods

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The setting, the premise, and the writing make this an atmospheric page turner. It's a story that cries out to be made into a movie.

Little Gods is a big hit with me!! I normally take a week or so to read a Mystery Novel, but Little Gods kept me reading all day! I finshed it in 24 hours! Then went back to read it two more times!
Being a youngster when JKF was killed and all the references in the book, took me back in time, a very welcome trip back too!
David Hoof has a winner!!!! To put it in 'todays' speak...LITTLE GODS ROCKS!!!

Travis Mather came of age against the back drop of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the JFK assassination and growing US involvement in Viet Nam, but the defining event of his life was the disappearance and presumed murder of his best friend, Cody Boyle, during their senior year at Wexford, an exclusive New England prep school. Little Gods is a beautifully crafted novel about fear, guilt and manipulation.

I really enjoyed this book's use of language. David Hoof is an eloquent writer, spinning his haunting tale with words that will live beyond the book itself. The only reason I am giving it four stars instead of five is that I found it very slow and confusing in the beginning, but hang in there, once it takes off, it takes off.

This was a good murder/mystery drama, about the grey side of tragic events, both well-written and interesting. Mr. Hoof's eloquent writing kept me turning pages, and appreciating the suspenseful tangle of plots he wove.

Little Gods opens as a group of boys at a prestigious private school are deeply affected by the mysterious - at least to the outside world - disappearance of a favored classmate, Cody Boyle. Twenty-three years later, Cody's disappearance still shapes the lives of some of his classmates including Travis Mathers, Cody's best friend. As Travis struggles to accept the secrets he's uncovered about the school, he must also decide if exposing them is worth the pain the exposure will cause the people for which he cares deeply. Hoof takes the reader on a journey through human reactions and sincere emotions without over-sentimentality as he reveals the secret underpinnings that reach beyond the school's reality - the kind of secrets that stay hidden because most people don't want to face their existence. Little Gods is at once engaging, intriguing, and entertaining while feeling all too plausible in the world in which we live.