Gray Skies, Concrete Dreams

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Matt’s life is a train wreck, but at least the drinks are strong, and the drugs are plentiful.

Set against the backdrop of Seattle, where the gray skies and frequent rain mirror his state of mind, Matt struggles with anger issues, shallow coworkers, dysfunctional relationships, and the existential fear that he’s trapped. Stuck being micromanaged in a soul-crushing corporate job during the peak of the 2008 recession, he turns to evenings fueled by drugs and alcohol to escape the monotonous routine. The gap between the life he imagined—one of purpose, meaning, and emotional satisfaction in his relationships—and the grim reality of who he has become, grows bleaker with every night.

Gray Skies, Concrete Dreams captures the quiet desperation behind the desk and the whiskey glass.

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Gray Skies never slows or stalls and the anti-hero, Matt Reynolds, seemingly never changes, as if intent on applying Larry David’s famous rule of comedy to real life… The reader, however, quickly shuttled from bar to pub to strip joint to dingy alley to stale corporate lunchroom and back again…

Ten years in the making; Gray Skies, Concrete Dreams; is a must-read, debut novel.

The writing is so immersive that I felt as though I were seeing, hearing, and living each moment through the main character — unfortunately, a selfish, self-destructive, and deeply unlikeable man… If you can appreciate stories steeped in drugs, booze, and hollow pursuits, or if you’re curious to understand the psyche of an unhappy, self-destructive soul, then this novel has much to offer.

The book just keeps getting better and better, I find myself addicted to this book. Now reading it a second time I’m learning things about the characters I overlooked the first time as I thought they were just idiosyncrasies

I liked it… complex characters instead of staple clichés.