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The Bends: Kane Montgomery #1 Kindle Edition

by Bart Hopkins (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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Marathon is a quiet little Texas town, and it’s getting quieter. Kids are vanishing, disappearing like tumbleweeds in the desert wind.

Somebody—or something—is taking them.

Action. Adventure. Romance. Suspense. The Bends is a supernatural thriller rollercoaster ride!

Recommended for Fans of Blake Crouch, Stephen King, J.A. Konrath, and Dean Koontz

Other books by Bart Hopkins:

Like Total Eclipse Fluke Texas Jack World Wide Gone Dead Ends

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    Kane Montgomery
  2. Print length
    343 pages
  3. Language
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  5. Publication date
    14 March 2017
  6. File size
    5050 KB
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About the Author

Bart Hopkins was born in the middle of the 1970s, owned an Atari, and loves 80s music. He can use a card catalog like nobody's business, but one time he accidentally deleted his website and blog.

https://www.barthopkins.com
https://www.facebook.com/bartdesignscovers
Twitter:  https://twitter.com/bartwritesbooks

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B06X9MRQYB
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Human Ingenuity Press (14 March 2017)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 5050 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 343 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.3 out of 5 stars 186

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Bart grew up along the muddy brown beaches of the Texas coast.

He was a mediocre surfer and skater, Atari 2600 owner, and firmly believes that 80s music is the best.

Bart likes to travel, snap pictures, design covers, and scribble down words when he's not hanging out with his family and their two dogs: a sneaky Westie named Lulu; and a pure-of-heart, loyal, yet incredibly unintelligent Cockapoo he calls Bear.

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Bart has written five novels, a novella, and dozens of short stories.

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mark burdeshaw
5.0 out of 5 stars Sweet and Charming
Reviewed in the United States on 9 November 2023
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This is a great story, plenty of twists and turns, good guys and bad guys, and you can't help but love Kane Montgomery and Lucy. There are lots of details left out which leaves me wanting to read the next Kane Montgomery book.
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ShirleyG
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 May 2017
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Really enjoyed reading this.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Please Write More!
Reviewed in the United States on 16 July 2020
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That says it all. Kane Montgomery was a most engaging character and the writing was great. I see this is book #1, but it has been several years so where is #2? So, please write more!
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Lynda Kelly
2.0 out of 5 stars Got Too Mystical For Me
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 April 2019
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I have been a fan of more than a couple of books by this author and really wanted to like this one and gave it a fair crack (giving up at 58% in) but in the end it just got too fanciful for my liking, making it impossible for me to be able to believe in it any longer.....such a shame. Though I've noticed a couple more in his listing I haven't read so I haven't in any way given up on him.
I liked Kane, though he didn't really seem to "do" anything much......and I really liked Lucy, his girlfriend, too. Both great characters and for most of the story things are going along nicely.
Loved his dedication at the beginning as well.
What I did NOT like was the amount of American pop culture references and acronyms thrown into this. Not something I recall him doing in all his books. I had to Google glass packs, an ACU pattern Camelbak, a dually, USOs, Johnny Law Hammer, P90X, The Undertaker, Goose and Maverick and E-9s. You can see how often I had to stop and start and it totally breaks up the experience and is highly irritating.
I found it a little odd that he wrote about Deputy Slidell like this and then Tom in the same paragraph, like he was referring to somebody different. Made it a bit needlessly confusing. He wrote cliche and not cliched, dropped a LOT of speechmarks, kept writing hummer and not Hummer and odd words were missed from sentences. I did get a little tired of hearing about Bird's constant spitting habit and I wondered too if Apple had him on commission for product-placement.....
I reached the part of the story where a character was shape-shifting, rolled my eyes and gave up on it, though. That mystical stuff just isn't for me in the least.
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crazyredj
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Environment and Description
Reviewed in the United States on 14 June 2023
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I can rarely get through self-published novels. This one holds your attention with believable characters and realistic environment. Great story!
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