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I liken this book to a pond in which a large rock has been thrown with the resultant waves changing everything they touch. Thus to me seems the fate of all the main characters in this story. As the waves of the Columbine shootings engulf the lives of the central characters they are spun into new and different realities exposing weaknesses, secrets, dreams, dred,insecurities and fears; the dark side of what makes us complex humans. The things they hid from themselves and others or tucked away for
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I couldn't put this book down. It's a tour-de-force that made me cry several times. There are a few places where the energy lags a bit but the story and the characters were enough to keep me involved. I hope Lamb doesn't take another 10 years to write his next book.
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Ahh! 700 pages I should have known but I was so drawn in by the main subject I just had to try. It starts out great, gets bogged down in the middle by history you don't really care about because you aren't that into the characters but more the situation, and the end actually pissed me off quite a bit!
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I enjoyed the novel, but I do have to echo the complaint that it tried to take on too much at once.
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Amy
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I just could not get into this book. I tried, but after 100 pages, I gave up.
Aug 08, 2008
Amber
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Oct 07, 2018
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