The Return (Revere Beach Boulevard Book 2)

But if you did read Revere Beach Boulevard, you must be dying to read the next chapter. An Italian-American family that loves and supports each other. With the excitement of mobsters, newscasters, gamblers, police, lovers, and a spot-on view of living in an Italian neighborhood near Boston a generation ago. I know--I grew up in a factory town a few mies north of Revere.The is a tightly constructed and exciting read from the first page to the last, You will love this book.

Merullo writes about revere, going up and down neighborhood streets. Brings me back to childhood

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This is an excellent, extremely well-written climax of the author's "Revere Beach" trilogy with compelling characters who mainly appeared in "Revere Beach Boulevard". Although some complain about the basically unhappy ending the novel unfolds with a logic that leads to the final denouement that is tragically inevitable. I think Merullo is a great writer and have read all his novels and think he deserves greater respect from the general public as a seminal modern American author. I find him as talented and entertaining as his fellow Exeter graduate John Irving, whose books I also adore though they tend to be longer, but not necessarily more fully developed, than Merullo's. Both are masters at characterization, mood and plot.

It has been several years since I read the previous novel (Revere Beach Boulevard ) about the characters in The Return.and their complicated lives. The Return was a welcome continuation of how these lives had evolved and what they dreamed about and hoped for. It was like going home and visiting family and neighbors who were once an important part of your life. Coming from that area the story had special meaning but the location could be any small town and the lives of ordinary people struggling with guilt, old world beliefs, and regrets while trying to hold onto their faith and hope. Wonderful read!

A bit gritty yet poignant. Roland Merullo tugged at my heart with this story about a man who earned his living working for the Mafia, a man well suited to any task that brought him ever more power and required a heart of stone. It is also about the people's lives he affected through his violence. The story opens with him deciding to seek revenge.

This is vintage Merullo, a beautifully-paced thriller replete with memorable characters both endearing and terrifying. A sequel to Revere Beach Boulevard (one of my favorites for the scene at the dog track and the scary/comic heavy), this novel picks up its predecessor's characters and leads them to surprising but consistent conclusions. Here's a book for someone who wants a page-turner that will also draw the reader's sympathies in for the characters and their fates.

Well worth the wait for the sequel to Revere Beach Boulevard! Merullo really captures the essence of Revere once again. The characters are very real and believeable.