Broken Ground (The Jay Porter Series)

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Jay Porter is a content creator who his known for his hilarious personality and passion for making entertaining videos. Alongside his fiancé Poppy Hollins, the pair like to play pranks on each other as well as vlog trips away and have amassed an incredible following across a number of social media channels. I’ve pondered over that very thing and I have to tell you, I had several problems with this story. The first and foremost being it was entirely too detailed, to the point it became rather frustrating to concentrate on the story itself. Attica is known for her detail-oriented writing, which for the most part, I really enjoy, but she truly overdid it in this one. This novel reads like a screenplay or script for a movie, wherein you’d need to know where a character enters and exits stage left, but when you’re writing a novel, it isn’t necessary to place all those intricate details into it. Jay was held a hero for bringing down Cole Oil and he was still riding high off of that win, although he was beginning to sour on the current case he had pending. While fighting and dealing with a new beast threatening the lives of his new clients literally, a young girl is found dead during Election Night. This hit a little too close to home having a young teen himself. Who on earth would want this young teen dead? Now Jay is faced with another dilemma. Someone on the campaign trail is accused of this young lady’s murder. Several of the political players have called upon Jay for his expertise and literally begging him to help defend the young man accused of this crime. Well, that is, one political figure in particular seeks out Jay’s assistance for his nephew, who is the one being accused of the heinous act. There’s murder, mayhem and political tug-of-wars so what’s not to love about this story, you ask? Houston, Texas in 1981. Jay Porter is an attorney who's scraping by, with clients comping him in favors rather than paying his legal fees. Determined to do something nicer for his wife Bernie on her birthday than buying her a bathrobe, Jay arranges for a moonlit cruise on Buffalo Bayou. The brown waterway is too putrid to have ever been developed and the raggedy boat they're on can't even turn around in it. Just as Bernie, pregnant with the couple's first child, begins to appreciate Jay's thought, they hear two gunshots and a woman's scream. When a white woman crashes through the brush and sinks into the murk, Jay rescues her. Joe is the producer of Lip Service West, a reading “raw, gritty, real” series in Oakland, California, and works as acquisitions editor for Gutter Books. He has also edited two anthology books, one inspired by the music of Bruce Springsteen, while the other is inspired by Johnny Cash’s music.

My second problem with the story is it was too well written. I know, I know that sounds absolutely insane, but let me explain. This book was so well written to the point I could find nothing wrong with it. There wasn’t one grammatical error, everything was so perfect—too perfect, if you will. Don’t get me wrong, I’m the first to deduct points for shoddy editing, but when you write a book this perfect, one tends to not invest much time into the characters. It’s like who the hell cares about them? And that’s what upset me so because I truly respect and love this author so much. I absolutely found myself getting pissed with the overdoing of detail and the perfectness of the story. It got to the point I truly didn’t care about Jay, his issues and/or struggles and anything else. There was entirely too much detail and that drove me absolutely bonkers. Just seen Randy a week before he passed w/ a big smile & always a good thing to say about anyone that was ... Read more part of his circle. I will truly miss talking & laughing w/Randy, you are loved my Friend & will always be in our hearts. The people from F & C Door Read less Jay was born in Oklahoma City on April 5, 1973. He attended Putnam City North High School where he was both student council president and editor of the paper. An English major, he graduated from Yale University in 1995. After graduation, he returned to Oklahoma City, where he absolutely doted on his younger sisters. In 1999, Jay moved to Seattle, where he met the love of his life, David Smith. Somehow I thought this book was a mystery. But the real mystery is Jay Porter...why he doesn't connect with his wife whom he loves, who loves him, and on whom he hangs his whole future.

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Keep your head down, speak only when spoken to. A warning drilled into him every day of his life growing up in Nigton, Texas, née Nig Town, née Nigger Town (its true birth name when it sprang up a hundred years ago in the piney woods of East Texas).” He had abandoned that strategy somewhat as a college student at the University of Houston, where he had been active in the civil rights movement and had rubbed shoulders with people like Stokely Carmichael and Huey Newton. But as a lawyer, he had other priorities: The Baltimore Ravens leaned on that familiarity in 2018 when they selected Orlando Brown Jr. in the third round. Jay Porter, beloved husband, son, brother, uncle and friend passed from this life on November 2, 2021 from complications related to chronic lymphocytic leukemia. He was 48 years old.

Former police chief Axel Hathorne is from Pleasantville. His opponent, District Attorney Wollcott, decides to prosecute Axe’s nephew Neal for the crime, based on extremely flimsy evidence. As Neal is his uncle’s campaign manager, it looks a lot like a cheap stunt to tank Axe in the upcoming runoff election. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. It often indicates a user profile.Jay’s life and that of his 2 children become endangered when the environmental case runs headlong into ongoing Mayoral politics, the mysterious disappearance of a young campaign worker in the community which resembles that of two earlier unsolved murders, and the trial of the grandson of one of PV ‘s most prestigious founders. Porter’s floundering without his wife is touchingly conveyed. “There are things she knew about her family, not secrets so much as hard-earned intimacies, that she inadvertently took with her, leaving the rest of them to fend for themselves in this new, foreign land, daily meeting at the kitchen table, or passing in the hallway, without their shared interpreter.” The murder recalls the earlier disappearance and murder of two girls from Pleasantville. Those murders were never solved. Although the circumstances of the new murder are somewhat different, Jay Porter and his friend, who had been a reporter for the Houston Post and had covered the other murders, suspect that all three are related. But how to prove that, especially when the police seem to be dragging their feet and the Houston Chronicle barely mentions the murder? When the investigative reporter from the Post had left the building on that final day of the newspaper, she had managed to take a box of her notes with her. Among those notes are her interviews and findings regarding the two earlier murders. That provides a starting point for trying to find out what happened this time. It's interesting to note the parts of the story that remind the reader of the time and place being described. One clue is the lingering aftermath of the 1973 OPEC oil embargo and the beginning indications of the 80s oil glut. Another 1980s fact of life is that it seems that everybody is smoking in offices and public places. (Amazing we didn't all die of second hand smoke.) Also, nobody has a cell phone. (Life was so dangerous then with no cell phones to call for help when needed.)

He spent plenty of time on NFL sidelines, including the Steelers' Super Bowl XL win over the Seattle Seahawks. Joey Porter Sr. celebrated winning Super Bowl XL with his namesake, Joey Porter Jr. [left] and his youngest son, Jacob Porter [right]. G. N. Lowrance/NFLPhotoLibrary For a moment I consider telling him to grow up. But I am chastened by the presence of his managers. Instead I look him in the eye and tell him that I am not trying to psychoanalyse him, that his music has simply meant more to me than any other throughout my life. There is something that moves across his face but I could not name it. “Aehhh,” he breathes. Broken Ground” is the fourth novel in the “Jay Porter” series, which was released in the year 2018. While at an AA meeting, Jay meets a recovering addict in need of help. During another grueling northern New Hampshire winter, Amy Lupus’s little sister, Emily, has disappeared from the Coos County Center, which is the newly opened rehab opened by Adam and Michael Lombardi, Jay’s nemeses. He writes the “Jay Porter” series and stand alone novels. His debut novel, “Junkie Love” was released in the year 2013. Joe’s work is from the memoir and crime genres. Makes me laugh because you can just tell Jay doesn’t want to propose and doesn’t even seem interested in getting married.. in their lives he has mentioned it a few times saying he doesn’t see the fuss. On their “this and that” challenge, he went for “no marriage” whilst obvs Poppy went for marriage, but because of Poppy constantly mentioning it and now all their TikTok fans, and even Liv Harland saying she would sing at their wedding.. he feels that he has too after being pressured into it. In every single live of theirs, they’re always being asked to “get married, put a ring on it”.. I found it quite sad when they said they would have tiktok on live whilst getting married????I remember putting on his shoulder pads and his helmet, running around trying to be just like him," Porter Jr. said. Former general manager Ozzie Newsome, who was part of the Cleveland Browns front office that drafted Brown Sr. and the Ravens' front office that signed him as a free agent, drafted Brown Jr., fulfilling a childhood dream -- and a not-so-accidental prophecy. Just seen Randy a week before he passed w/ a big smile & always a good thing to say about anyone that was part of his circle. ... Read more I will truly miss talking & laughing w/Randy, you are loved my Friend & will always be in our hearts. The people from F & C Door Read less Among those connected people is Houston's mayor, the white woman whom Jay believes sold him out to the FBI when he was in college because of his political organizing. (He was also dating her, double trouble.) He almost went to prison then, and the scars from the experience never fully healed. So as we follow Jay in the present, we also learn about what happened *then* and the interconnections.

Hosting a long-running series on his TikTok alongside Poppy, Jay hunts for the UK’s best Sunday roast. Travelling to many pubs and restaurants across the country, the pair harshly review the highly sought-after Sunday roast in a commentary style over footage of them arriving at the restaurant as well as eating the food. Much has happened in attorney Jay Porter's life as well. He has become more widely known and successful after his victory in the Cole Oil case that the previous book recounted. But his personal life is in shambles after his beloved wife died of cancer the year before. He is left to raise a teenage daughter and his younger son on his own and he doubts he is up to the challenge. In response, he has virtually given up his practice in the interim. He presently has one case pending; he is representing the community of Pleasantville in its suit regarding a chemical fire that caused severe damage. But the case seems to be going nowhere and some of his clients are beginning to question his dedication to it. Jay and David married in May 2004, and spent the next 17 years sharing travel and food adventures, moving up and down the West Coast, with a five year stint in Chicago before finally settling in Napa, California. He was always excited to try something new and experience everything the world had to offer him. Jay was the perfect host, a generous friend, a warm shoulder, and a loving husband. He and David shared a marriage that was admired by everyone who knew them. Porter Jr. earned first-team All-Big Ten honors in his final season at Penn State. He had a career-high 11 pass breakups and his 3.7 opponents' yards per attempt thrown in his direction was tied for fourth best in the FBS. I don't (do interviews) because it's his journey and his time," Porter Sr. said. "I don't ever wanna make the situation about me because it's not, it's about him."Give Up the Dead” is the third novel in the “Jay Porter” series, which was released in the year 2017. Three years have gone by since Jay Porter, estate clearing handyman came close to losing his life after a devastating accident on the thin ice on Echo Lake. His work uncovering a kids-for-cash scandal might have made Ashton, New Hampshire safer, but nothing is ever without a price. The uncredited, traumatic events cost Jay his son and his wife, and now he has a permanent leg injury.