Comments on: Pressure

By: Jim

Jim — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 16:10:19 +0000

Twisted

I cannot think of a more accurate description for this book. Not that there’s anything wrong with that!

I don’t remember ever being so invested in a character and his troubles, or feeling so helpless when the inevitable occurs.

We know what Alex will find when he opens the bedroom door. He has to find it. And yet, when it finally happened, the impact was so overwhelming that despite being so close to the end of the book, I put it down. I spent the rest of the afternoon hugging and playing with my three-year-old daughter.

Of course the minute she went to sleep I grabbed it up again and finished it off!

I’ve read the Andrew Mayhem trilogy, some of the short stories I’ve been able to get my hands on, and even laughed my way through Suckers. Quirky and dark humor throughout it all. I ate it up.

Pressure was SO not what I was expecting. It was more. MUCH more!

And I hope there’s more to come.

By: megan

megan — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 04:20:12 +0000

I loved this book so much! I was so into it I finished it in only 5-6 hours I did take maybe 5-10 min breaks.

By: Mizzbett

Mizzbett — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 04:35:19 +0000

Wow, this book was absolutely addictive. It’s the first book I’ve read by you and I already have Benjamin’s Parasite on the way. I read Pressure over last weekend; I could barely put the thing down! It reminded me of long ago when I first discovered Stephen King’s The Stand and walked around my parent’s house reading, even bringing the book to the dinner table – which could be at times very unappetizing – not wanting to miss a single word. It’s fantastic to get so absorbed in a story.

Your writing style is great; it reads very easily and the humor is inserted in just the right places; I was smiling and chuckling one minute and gasping the next because the story itself is not funny, at all. In fact, it can be gut-wrenching and gruesome, and it is told with finesse and with great attention to every gory, nasty detail. I could see the events unfolding in my mind’s eye as I read.

I really got invested in the four kids’ lives; the way you wrote them was poignant and tender (and funny), and they were very real. I liked how you went through each phase of Alex’s life in segments and then brought it all together in the end. Truth be told, I was hooked from the Prologue! Darren Rust is a bad, bad, BAD boy.

All in all, I was very impressed. I suggest that anyone reading this pick the book up and give it a try – bet you can’t read just one chapter!

Great work Jeff and I hope you beat the crap out of Mr. King at the Stokers this weekend.

By: Mom

Mom — Wed, 27 May 2009 15:17:00 +0000

Got it — looks fantastic. You have worked hard! Love ya. M
P.S. It is a deep scary good book.

By: Karen Wiesner

Karen Wiesner — Tue, 26 May 2009 14:57:46 +0000

Can’t tell you how proud I am of you, Jeff. I’ll be buying the book as soon as I can get to a bookstore. Best of luck with your career.

By: Sam

Sam — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:14:26 +0000

I have to say that the beginning really caught me and I was hooked from the first two sentences: “That’s all you’ve gotta do. Steal the condoms and you’re in the club.”
The book is amazingly detailed and made me really want to attack some of the characters myself. The plot twists drove me crazy but in turn made me read faster and faster just to see what happens. Some parts even took my breath away as I was just trying to force myself to keep going and cheer for Alex through his struggles and conflicts (major conflicts) between Darren and himself.
I have to say that no other book has ever made me this nervous or crazy while reading it. I couldn’t put it down for a break no matter how hard I tried.
The last few chapters basically made me go insane and reading the last paragraph of the book was like a huge sigh of relief. There is so much I want to say about this book but I can’t put it in words.
Overall, it was excellently written and I loved it! Keep writing more thrillers and I’ll keep reading them! Good luck with future books and sales!