Book Review: Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby

 

About:

A Black father. A white father. Two murdered sons. A quest for vengeance.

Ike Randolph has been out of jail for fifteen years, with not so much as a speeding ticket in all that time. But a Black man with cops at the door knows to be afraid.

The last thing he expects to hear is that his son Isiah has been murdered, along with Isiah’s white husband, Derek. Ike had never fully accepted his son but is devastated by his loss.

Derek’s father Buddy Lee was almost as ashamed of Derek for being gay as Derek was ashamed his father was a criminal. Buddy Lee still has contacts in the underworld, though, and he wants to know who killed his boy.

Ike and Buddy Lee, two ex-cons with little else in common other than a criminal past and a love for their dead sons, band together in their desperate desire for revenge. In their quest to do better for their sons in death than they did in life, hardened men Ike and Buddy Lee will confront their own prejudices about their sons and each other, as they rain down vengeance upon those who hurt their boys.

My Thoughts

This story kept me interested from beginning to end. The end had me quite emotional too. SA Crosby is an author to watch.

In Razorblade Tears we meet Ike and Buddy Lee, two fathers who become bonded by revenge for the death of their sons. These fathers sought revenge as a plaster to a sore, that being the unwillingness of both dads to accept that their sons were homosexual.

Ike and Buddy Lee also were also former prisoners so you know that their attempt at avenging these guys' deaths may lead them down a dangerous path.

This book was so full of action that you felt as though you were watching a really good movie. I loved how creatively Cosby dealt with loss and grief in this book and also regret. I think that avenging their sons' deaths was partly out of regret at how they treated their sons.

This is worth the hype. Indeed a masterpiece