The Groover’s Last Stand

Scot Savage
Scot Books (2006)
ISBN 9781424309337
Reviewed by Cathy Yanda for Reader Views (3/06)


There are so many characters in “The Groover’s Last Stand” that you may need a notebook to keep track of them. But it will be worth it. Just don’t refer to the back of the book -- that’s where you will find what happens to the characters after this story is told. The author, Scot Savage, has written a book that no matter how much I wanted to put it down and do some other things, I kept going back to pick it up so I could find out what was happening next to the people who had become real through his writing.

The book takes places in 1988 and explores music, love, sex, jealousy, human nature, and the depths of our minds. There are stories within stories. At times, it will cause the reader to question where imagination ends and reality begins. The book opens with “…The void of the unconscious was a lonely place, indeed. Only two beings lived in this isolated place. These two had lived in this place that separated the ‘brain’ from the ‘mind’ ever since the outer body came into existence. The two never cared for each others company, but one’s existence was impossible without the other. This was a fact of life that they both had to put up with even if they didn’t like it…”

Don’t fret if you don’t understand it yet, just keep reading. It will all become all-too-clear very soon. “The Groover’s Last Stand” has something for everyone in its 500+ pages. Savage’s first book is an easy read, with enough twists and turns, conniving, humor, and innuendo to keep even the laziest reader involved.

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