The Last Mango in Texas
Ray Blackstone
Faith Words, 2009, 247 pp., $13.99
faithwords.com
Think Carl Hiaasen retrained. The story of boy meets girl; girl wants to save the environment; boy inherits oil wells from his uncle…hilarity ensues. (Or, it should have.)
Mango is a good read but feels constrained so that it can fit within the boundaries of Christian publishing. This read feels sort of like listening to a Christian band that sounds a lot like Green Day rather than just listening to Green Day. I think Faithwords missed an opportunity to let a good writer off the leash.
