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Wow! An amazing first book for Bree Despain. I was pulled through from beginning to end, and I thought I was sick of books about werewolves (sorry no vampires in this one). Although I didn't get totally tricked or surprised by any of the plot twists, it made me feel smart to know that it was coming (rather than boring me because it was only as expected). The main character, Grace, felt real and properly conflicted, as well as spunky. I liked that. I need to get the next book in the series so I can move it to the top of my stack!
Great, fast book! I became obsessed with tennis in high school. Its such a psychological game coupled with strength and endurance. I was able to attend Wimbledon in 2004 and sit atop Henman Hill to watch the final game. The next year, James Blake sets everyone afire with his story. He is such an intelligent guy and I respect him more after reading his book. He overcame so many obstacles in order to persevere and make a comeback in tennis and his lessons learned can be applied to anyone that has goals but things are just always in the way! I know James had a bad US Open last year...his career is winding down ---a lot---but he brought so much heart to the sport!
I enjoy Kinsey Millhone's adventures as a private investigator but this book started with what I assume is a typo and through the first four or five chapters it jumps back and forth between events on December 24 and 27th. You have no way of knowing what happened when and the jumps caused me to stop and reread passages to try to figure out what was going on. For example: the first line of the book is "it was Monday, December 27". 2 pages later in the same chapter "the only signs of Christmas, two days away..." HUH? The inconsistences were aggravating and took too much time to backtrack to figure it out. Regardless of these issues, it was a great mystery and worth the read even though confusing as hell. This is book five in the series and only 200 pages long - someone should have paid more attention to the details.
Not what I was expecting, but pleasantly surprised that it wasn't too bad.
Epic is the woord, but, good grief, 538 pages of repeating the Jim Crow woes of three migrants from the South struck me as unwieldy and unnecessary. Their stories definitely needed telling, and the book was obviously thoroughly researched and well written, but half the number of pages would have done it nicely. After the first 300 +/- pages my rating went steadily down as the repetition increased.
a wonderful story about animals