When one person in a small town in New Hampshire refuses to pay his property tax things go from bad to worse. The premise of this crime novel was good and I enjoyed the story but there was too much repetition. The story is told as a flashback so the ending was obvious. I found it hard to like any of the characters. It was a quick read.

Very interesting read, a story that makes you think-about who really 'controls' our lives. We pay taxes,(income,property,excise etc.)but where is the rule, and who made the laws , of why we must pay?
This is a story from a young boy, not 18 years old, about his family and friends who live in a small town in New Hampshire. Now we all know that 'Live Free or Die' is that states' motto, but exactly how free are we...
I thank BookSprout, Netgalley and author Dave Ives for sending me a copy of this book to read. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this, with questions bouncing in my mind during the story and after. I am also able to put my thoughts down here in this review for all. I suggest you pick up this quick story, read it and let's hear what You think...

I received a free copy of Live Free or Die from Net Galley. I am providing an honest review and am not being compensated.
I have seen promotional material for this book for a few weeks and found the descriptions tantalizing because my father refused to pay property tax during the time period described. He lost his house over it but that's where similarities ended.
I found this book to be very scary because of the way all levels of government we're portrayed. Because of the turmoil in the US government these days, the depiction of local cops, city government, FBI and other powerful government entities in this book and my own long-term distrust of the feds....this book just made me sick and angry.
There were a lot of horrible people in this small town in New Hampshire. There were a lot of supposed government actions that occurred that I questioned as legit considering this was supposed to be a kid telling what happened.
I doubt that some 'legal actions' mentioned being taken here during the 'Nixon/Ford' era we're in practice anywhere in the US then and I certainly don't think they are now. Because of that, I had a credibility problem with the entire story.
But I couldn't stop reading.
I did skim lightly over about 1/3 of the book when I grew tired of reading the same question over and over that 'Digger' kept putting to the Town council.