In the Midst Of

C. M. Barons
New Age World Publishing (2008)
ISBN 9781594050985
Reviewed by Danelle Drake for Reader Views (10/08)


Do you ever really know someone?  Sitting on your sofa at home one evening watching the evening news when a terribly gruesome crime comes on and you cringe--descriptive details turn your stomach, things unheard of-- you realize that you have known the one and only suspect for years.

“In the Midst Of” of takes us back to the 1970s in this fast-paced novel that has you hovering on the edge never knowing what will happen next.  Written with flare depicting the era you travel back through time and get a glimpse of the lives of Brian and Hollis.  We follow this bit-of-odd combination of friendship through times of “sex, drugs, and rock-n-roll.”  Seeing the connections that they sometimes do not see themselves we share wild times and are given bits and pieces into their real lives.

“In the Midst Of” by C.M. Barons is most definitely one of those books that you will hold onto and read again and again.  I feel the character Brian totally described the book in the introduction, “Hollis was my friend; I didn’t psychoanalyze him.  It would have seemed like an autopsy.  That said; one shouldn’t assume I was blindly accepting.  Loyalty is a self-actualizing alliance.  Age anoints one’s proclivity to be self-critical.”  Do you every really know someone, or do you choose to know and exclude the things in which you do not agree?  I can’t wait to see what C.M. Barons has in store for his readers next.

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