Hope Rides Again
Hope Rides Again: An Obama Biden Mystery is a 2019 book by Andrew Shaffer, published by Quirk Books. It is a sequel to Hope Never Dies, and is part of a series of books in which Joe Biden and Barack Obama are detectives solving crimes. Shaffer stated that the series is "escapist".[1]
The content is told in the first person perspective by Biden. He and Obama look for a person who took Obama's mobile device. According to Dean Poling of the Valdosta Daily Times, Obama is the equivalent of Sherlock Holmes and Biden is the equivalent of Dr. Watson.[2]
Reception
Kirkus Reviews wrote that the concept is "silly", and that the Biden character is "moralizing and generalizing" and not as "humorous" compared to that of the first novel.[3]
Publishers Weekly described the work as "humorous" and stated that the book's positioning of Obama and Biden as protagonists in an action-oriented story was "convincing".[4]
Poling compared the work to works by Kinky Friedman.[2]
See also
References
- ^ Andrews-Dyer, Helena (2019-05-11). "Miss the Biden and Obama bromance? There's — another — book for that". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2024-11-07.
- ^ a b Poling, Dean (2019-08-16). "BOOK REVIEW: Hope Rides Again: Andrew Shaffer". Valdosta Daily Times. Retrieved 2024-11-07.
- ^ "HOPE RIDES AGAIN". Kirkus Reviews. 2019-07-09. Retrieved 2024-11-07.
- ^ "Hope Rides Again". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 2024-11-07.
Further reading
- "Hope Rides Again". Booklist. 2019-06-01.
External links
- Hope Rides Again - Quirk Books
- Hope Rides Again - Andrew Shaffer official website