New World Review: Kondazian’s novel THE WHIP is Classic Americana

Again Karen Kondazian’s novel THE WHIP, a historical novel about the  Californian stagecoach driver Charley Parkhurst, has received a wonderful review. This time in the December 2011 issue of the New World Review. The review is especially meaningful since Fred Beauford, the Review’s editor-in-chief, decided to review Kondazian’s THE WHIP himself. As he confessed to me in an email, “I got so carried away with it that I decided to review it myself.”

Beauford’s review recognizes THE WHIP as Karen Kondazian’s debut novel and speaks about her talent as a new novelist:

One thing I really like about this job is that I get to discover promising new talent far outside of the world of agents, New York publishers, academics, and establishment book reviewers.

Karen Kondazian’s debut novel, The Whip, is in that category. Her well-written work, based on a true story, displays all the confidence of a seasoned novelist. I didn’t detect one false note.

Beauford ends his review declaring that Kondazian’s THE WHIP is “classic Americana” and recommends that readers should give the book their attention:

I have often been accused of never meeting a book I didn’t like. But try The Whip on, nevertheless, despite me. I think you will get as caught up in it as I was. This is classic Americana.

The entire review of Karen Kondazian’s novel THE WHIP can read at the New World Review web site.

THE WHIP by Karen Kondazian is published by Hansen Publishing Group. THE WHIP is available as a trade paperback and as an ebook. The paperback can be ordered online from Amazon and Barnes & Noble and other online retailers. The ebook version of THE WHIP is available on the Kindle, the Nook, the iPad and other platforms.