Whatever You Do, Don't Believe Everything You Read... Review of Ink Ribbon Red

There’s a plot device sometimes used in mystery novels, known as the “unreliable narrator”... which means what the storyteller says may --or may not —be true. Usually, this unreliable person is one main character. But imagine being faced with no fewer than six such potentially-unreliable sources? How would you know who— if anyone —to believe... and who was absolutely not to be trusted? Welcome to author Alex Pavesi’s intricately-twisted tale, Ink Ribbon Red , where absolutely everything anyone says is suspect. There are a few different ways people approach “milestone” birthdays (the ones ending in zeroes). Some treat such birthdays like harbingers of apocalyptic proportions, best avoided (or at least, strenuously denied). For others, those “big birthdays” are a great excuse for a massive shindig. And for some, such birthdays are no different than any of the others which have already come and...