RaveThe Coachella Review... Plenty of twists and turns drive the plot in a fast-paced, mostly thrilling journey. Hall does a masterful job of rendering how Gray’s history coincides with the case she is working on ... Hall’s dark humor prevents the book from falling into preachiness ... The fast-paced read may be too much for some people—once you get going it really is hard to put this book down–– but it makes a satisfying couple of evening’s worth of entertainment.
S. A. Cosby
RaveThe Coachella ReviewS.A. Cosby’s Blacktop Wasteland is a fast-paced story that throws us against the seat and makes us grab for the \'oh-shit-bar\' from start to finish. It would be easy to dismiss this as a summer read, a fun heist story with exciting chase scenes that compels the reader to keep turning those pages with one satisfying twist after another. That would be a mistake. While Blacktop Wasteland is all of that, it is also an indictment against classism and racism written with a subtlety that eschews preachiness. Instead, Cosby gives us poverty-stricken Virginia with its closed strip malls, trailer parks, and white supremacists drawn with a voice so southern you can hear the twang as you read.
