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Title: Kimball Avoids the Usual Formula
Review: Mouth To Mouth is more than a thriller/ suspense novel. Michael Kimball has crafted a thoughtful and unpredictable story while avoiding the usual over-the-top or unlikely scenarios. The characters ( especially Ellen Chambers) are well drawn and Kimball demonstrates an excellent grasp of dialogue. This novel is a plausible and carefully constructed portrayal of a mother's unrelenting worry and intricacies of family politics. Mouth To Mouth is also a suspense story of the highest order, but the author has cleverly produced a socially diagnostic and compassionately written cautionary tale. As with his last book,Undone, Kimball takes chances and busts open the suspense genre with something quite different and very worth while. Fans of Thomas H. Cook ( The Chatam School Affair, Instruments Of Night) would enjoy Kimball's most recent effort.
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