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Jun 20, 2013 Beverly rated it it was amazing

This was a 4.5 star read for me.

There is nothing more wonderful than reading a book that grabs you, holds you, and then has you telling everyone – read this book! Fallen Land is a searing morally complex novel about the bittersweet legacy of families, loss, shattered dreams, and smoldering violence in a most contemplative suspenseful manner.
Louise Washington has lost too much over the past years – her husband, and most of the land (Poplar Farms) held by her family for generations. All she has l This was a 4.5 star read for me.

There is nothing more wonderful than reading a book that grabs you, holds you, and then has you telling everyone – read this book! Fallen Land is a searing morally complex novel about the bittersweet legacy of families, loss, shattered dreams, and smoldering violence in a most contemplative suspenseful manner.
Louise Washington has lost too much over the past years – her husband, and most of the land (Poplar Farms) held by her family for generations. All she has left is her family home on a small plot and memories of her family’s legacy – including a sacred spot marking a long-forgotten lynching, and she refuses to lose it to eminent domain.
Paul Krovik saw an opportunity when Poplar Farms went up for sale to realize his dream for being a property developer. His dreams are shattered when shoddy construction leaves him penniless, houseless, and his wife and children has left with no forwarding address. But he does have the bunker secretly constructed under his mansion house on the hill – where he will execute his plan for getting his family back.
Julie and Nathaniel Noailles and their young son Copley, are leaving their beloved Boston for the American dream of better opportunities moving into the foreclosed Krovik mansion. There is an eerie feeling that something is not right with the house. Neither parent believes Copley when he says there is a man living in their house. Nathaniel is tagged as a rising star in his company and he is afraid that his dreams will be shattered if he and his family do not fit into the corporate credo – where each corporate reward comes with increasing restrictions on freedom and privacy.
In this beautifully construed yet haunting storyline it is the land that will put each of the well-developed characters at the crossroads with the restrained menace smoldering within each of them as volatile truths whispers become louder exploding in dangerous actions. Each character will have their say throughout this book – allowing the reader to know more than the other character effectively building the tension and suspense that had me quickly turning the pages.
While I usually do not like to compare one writers style to another but I did have thoughts of Margaret Atwood when reading about the EKK corporation and their philosophy and the blurring of government/corporations being the holder of our security by stripping away privacy and their thoughts on prison rehabilitation as the answer for more corporate profit was downright scary.
This novel is well paced and while everything points to an underlying time bomb – it was still a jolt and an unexpected twist had me chuckling on how oblivious we can become when we become solitary to our own ambitions.

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