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fulfilling my 2021 goal to read one book each month by an author i have never read despite owning more than one of their books.
i am famously starbitrary in how i rate my appreciation of a book—i tend to let the word-part of my review do the qualitative assessment part, and the however-many-out-of-five rating is more of a necessary task i treat like a whatever-afterthought. my default is four if i like a book, three if i like it but have some reservations.
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i am famously starbitrary in how i rate my appreciation of a book—i tend to let the word-part of my review do the qualitative assessment part, and the however-many-out-of-five rating is more of a necessary task i treat like a whatever-afterthought. my default is four if i like a book, three if i like it but have some reservations.
this rating needs some clarification.
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1.5 stars
A novel alternating between 1986 and present day ... a group of friends made up of four 12 year old boys and one 12 year old girl in 1986 ... make them misfits of a sort, give them all nicknames, and label one of them the leader ... throw in murder, prophetic dreams, and suggestions of paranormal horror, and you are now very close to It, which was published in 1986, but followed seven children instead of five, and was of course set in Maine. But still. One of the kids in this book even ...more
A novel alternating between 1986 and present day ... a group of friends made up of four 12 year old boys and one 12 year old girl in 1986 ... make them misfits of a sort, give them all nicknames, and label one of them the leader ... throw in murder, prophetic dreams, and suggestions of paranormal horror, and you are now very close to It, which was published in 1986, but followed seven children instead of five, and was of course set in Maine. But still. One of the kids in this book even ...more
This is going to be a very popular book! Kept me up waaayy too late because I had to find out how it would end. Excellent! I look forward to reading more by this author! Hard to believe that it was her debut.
Four scruffy pre-adolescents, multiple secrets, and murder - all connected by a mysterious chalk game. Here is a link to my review and giveaway: https://perfectretort.blogspot.com/20...
Enter by Feb. 10, 2018 ...more
Enter by Feb. 10, 2018 ...more
A group of kids, improbably friends in the way that often happens at school, find their friendship tested and frayed over the course of one summer... but then, years later, that friendship and those events are the key to the modern day mystery of one of the group's murder. So far, so good.
The problem is that the characters are more one-dimensional than they should be for this to work well. The 1986 timeline was actually the more interesting one, the one where we meet the friends and learn about ...more
The problem is that the characters are more one-dimensional than they should be for this to work well. The 1986 timeline was actually the more interesting one, the one where we meet the friends and learn about ...more
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