Holland Family Novel: The Jealous Kind (Hardcover)

from TexasBookLover

TEXAS HISTORICAL FICTION / SUSPENSE James Lee Burke The Jealous Kind: A Novel Simon & Schuster Hardcover, 978-1-501-10720-7 (also available as an ebook, an audio book, and on Audible), 288 pgs., $27.99 August 30, 2016 It's 1952 on Galveston Beach and seventeen-year-old Aaron Holland Broussard hit...

from SamSattler

Thanks to a combination of selective memory, old movies and television shows, and iconic musical memories, we tend to think of the 1950s as a simpler, safer time that went by too quickly. That's as true for those of us who actually lived through the decade as it is for those of us who simply wish...

from AMKee

Awesome book. One of the best JLB books I have read. JLB is great with character development in all of his novels and this one does not let the reader down. Aaron, the lead character, is the guy you want in your corner, the bad boy the girls want to date, the son worried about his family and a st...

from grigoro

Great book, my first James Lee Burke. What incredible language and descriptions. I loved the descriptions and the characters. Aaron Boussard, the title character, is a "bad boy" that is good to the core. My favorite character, though, is his best friend Saber Bledsoe. I listened to this audio boo...

from DaveWilde

This novel is mind-blowingly great. It reminded me of James Dean in Rebel Without A Cause, but with the depth and background that a great novelist can inject into a story. Set in 1952 Houston, it is a story of a high school kid, Aaron Broussard, his encounters with rich punks from the other side ...