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The winner of the 2014 YouWriteOn Book Awards, Trigger Finger is Jackson Spencer Bell’s initial full-length offering. I suspect he’ll continue to garner attention because among other reasons he’s not afraid to take risks.

Trigger Finger is a risk. It’s an attempt to do one of the hardest things in genre fiction, which is to write an unreliable narrator novel that keeps the reader in suspense right until the very end.

Bell had this reader fooled until well past the halfway point in the story. In order to carry off his story, Bell has to put some things over on the reader. It’s rare that this can be done without giving away the story and Bell comes closer than most. Only Dennis Lehane’s Shelter Island does it better.

Bell writes in an afterword that he struggled with the ending. I give him a lot of credit for admitting that fact and for listening to his readers. The current ending works for me.


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Trigger Finger eBook Jackson Spencer Bell Reviews

This book sure had me guessing what was really going on!! I wasn't sure if it was supernatural or not, but I knew something was really off. I did really feel for the main character. As for the ending, well every one wants things wrapped up nicely, but alas live is not like that. I think he just went on the lam again and his mind is still in his alternate reality, and may be gone forever.
This is the best psychological thriller I've ever read. Okay, I guess forgot what the premise of the book was when I started reading it and thought it was a crime thriller. It is.....but so much more! I'm an ID channel addict and I was fooled completely. Things were striking me as odd but I'd brush it aside. I think that proves its a great book when even the reader doubts themself as much as the main character does. I found myself racing to finish the story just to have peace of mind and I wasn't disappointed at all. The whole story line is plausible and the ending fits completely, if not tragically. Excellent first book for this author and I will add him to my favorites to watch out for on .
I was really undecided whether to give this 3 stars or 4. Since this is the holiday season, I gave it 4 stars. This story reminded me slightly of the Stephen King style of writing from the 80's. You might classify it Psychological Thriller, or just screwed up. The editing was fairly clean, nothing that caused major hiccups while tearing through a tense scene. I couldn't shake the feeling that I knew how it was going to end from almost the beginning and then sure enough, that's how it ended. Then I read the bit about the author and how he reworked the ending to keep the reader guessing (confused) because someone suggested he do that. I will never know if that was good or bad. All in all, there were lots of good parts- enough to make it an overall good story.
Trigger Finger was one of the best novels (or novella I guess, it's only a couple of hours long) that I've read in a while. It was certainly one I didn't want to put down until the end. However it's that ending that for me drops it a star, as once I'd read the final page, I'm not to sure what happened. Perhaps that was the author's intent, but what we have is really three different endings. Each subsequent one could be the actual reality or a by product of the two before. I didn't mind any of the scenarios being the way the story ended, I just wish I knew which one was it. Pick one and ditch the others would be my advice to an author contemplating doing this. Jackson Bell does have an afterword where he says he's rewritten the ending due to a similar statement by an initial reviewer, but perhaps being that the story is from his mind, where he knows what the plan for the story was, he doesn't quite see the problem with the finished result by readers who didn't know his writing plan. Perhaps Bell could have explained the ending in the afterword, as in which one it was if he can't figure out how to make the actual story finish clearly. The afterword does also have some other interesting stuff such as some real life stories that inspired Trigger Finger, so I urge you to read that.

Other than the confusing ending, the rest of the story is very well written. The story is told all through the one character (Kevin)'s mind. It has an average everyday guy (other than he's a lawyer I guess) who awakens on his couch in his basement with a splitting headache and quickly remembers why he's lying there and if forced to do something he probably never thought he had in him, to protect his wife and 12 year old daughter upstairs. His early in the book recount of the events the way he remembers from that night do have a few holes that you the reader instantly question, which as the story proceeds onwards Kevin will be forced to question himself as well.

Kevin was a very likeable character and his voice for want of a better description was easy to read. Very few author's have you wanting to keep turning the pages and not put the book down. Highly recommend this book and will look forward to future novels by Bell, but I hope he picks an ending for the next ones.
Kevin Swanson, an attorney in a prominent law firm, married to a beautiful wife and father of a teenage daughter leads a normal, peaceful, ordinary life. That is until one night two men invade his home with the intent of doing harm. The intruders catch Kevin off guard and one of them whacks him in the back of the head with a bat leaving him unconscious. Kevin regains consciousness and seeks out a firearm. He catches up with the intruders and kills them.
Kevin is suddenly hurled into the role of a hero who thwarts the attempted rape and murder of his wife and daughter. This is just the beginning for Kevin as he encounters a series of assailants, would be rapists and robbers, killing them all. Are these coincidences? Is Kevin being targeted? Is he really a hero or something else?
Trigger finger is a fast-paced story with twist and turns and an ending that you don’t see coming. Although the author, Mr. Bell, leaves small morsels along the way suggesting that things may not be as they seem.
This story is worthy of reading and discussing with friends. Well done, Mr. Bell.
The winner of the 2014 YouWriteOn Book Awards, Trigger Finger is Jackson Spencer Bell’s initial full-length offering. I suspect he’ll continue to garner attention because among other reasons he’s not afraid to take risks.

Trigger Finger is a risk. It’s an attempt to do one of the hardest things in genre fiction, which is to write an unreliable narrator novel that keeps the reader in suspense right until the very end.

Bell had this reader fooled until well past the halfway point in the story. In order to carry off his story, Bell has to put some things over on the reader. It’s rare that this can be done without giving away the story and Bell comes closer than most. Only Dennis Lehane’s Shelter Island does it better.

Bell writes in an afterword that he struggled with the ending. I give him a lot of credit for admitting that fact and for listening to his readers. The current ending works for me.