I would say that Vine was my favorite character. I think the author’s purpose was to entertain the reader. This book was confusing from beginning to the end. Although, I would recommend this to anyone that is interested in dark and shadowy, yet secretive books. It was okay, but it wouldn’t be the first book that I would pick out in the library. It didn’t catch my attention very well at all I wasn’t drawn in on the drama. I thought Kissing the Rain was an uninteresting book. He likes mystery and suspence and enjoys putting both of those components into each and every story he writes in some shape or form. He writes most plots of the various books he has written around crime fiction. In February 2008 he published the standalone book Black Rabbit Summer.Īs a child, Kevin Brooks enjoyed reading detective novels. In 2006 he published 3 books including: Johnny Delgado Series - Like Father, Like Son and Private Detective as well as The Road of the Dead a standalone novel. In 2004 he published Kissing the Rain and Bloodline and I See You, Baby and Candy in 2005. He also wrote Lucas (2002) which was shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize and Booktrust Teenage Prize in 2003 also winning the North East Book Award in 2004. Kevin Brooks's writing career started with the publication of Martyn Pig in 2002 through The Chicken House which won the Branford Boase Award 2003 and was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal. Kevin Brooks has been in a variety of jobs including: musician, gasoline station attendant, crematorium handyman, civil service clerk, hot dog vendor at the London Zoo, post office clerk, and railway ticket office clerk. He studied Psychology and Philosophy at Birmingham, Aston University in 1980 and Cultural Studies in London in 1983. Kevin Brooks was born in 1959 and grew up in Exeter, Devon, England.

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