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stinkyfacegrace's review
4.0
I really liked this book overall. The book jacket gives away half the plot so initially I felt a little bored. But the characters are engaging and by the end I thought it was a satisfying read. This book isn't going to change your life but it succeeds in what it set out to do: entertain the reader.
brandonadaniels's review
5.0
“There’s men falling dead near about fast as the trees.”
Remarkable. Serena is one of the most mythical and memorable characters I have read. She reminded me of McCarthy’s The Judge.
Remarkable. Serena is one of the most mythical and memorable characters I have read. She reminded me of McCarthy’s The Judge.
darastar's review
3.0
This book was disturbing. But in a good way? Serena is vicious, brutal, merciless, and beautiful. Both the book and the character.
I'm not entirely sure how much I liked it, because there were a few too many unanswered questions to my liking, and because it was too gory for my taste in parts, but I can see how other people wouldn't care about what feels like wanton destruction to my eyes.
I'm not entirely sure how much I liked it, because there were a few too many unanswered questions to my liking, and because it was too gory for my taste in parts, but I can see how other people wouldn't care about what feels like wanton destruction to my eyes.
alisonjfields's review
3.0
A page-turner, though Rash seems to subscribe to the Faulknerian notion that men are a wealth of complexity but there are really only two kinds of women in the world--morally virtuous, simple, rustic, barefoot and pregnant and crazy rich sluts who are probably psychopaths, and whose unnatural (for a woman) ambition will be the end of all good men.
mkaybaker07's review
3.0
This book wasn't as unputdownable as I thought it'd be. It was okay, but I didn't love it.
rpmohn's review
5.0
Great writing, great story, historically important. I fear that Hollywood will ruin it this October.
angeli04's review
5.0
This is by far the best book I have read all year. I am a little late to the party, but man, this book. It grabbed me by the lapels and did not let go. The story is set in the 1930’s, during the height of the lumber and logging industry in North Carolina. This book is not for the faint of heart. It shows you man’s capability for extreme exploitation, cruelty and heartlessness. Yet I could not look away.
erincataldi's review
3.0
Wow, all I can say is... what a stone cold bitch! Serena is like a magestic, powerful panther that will gobble you up first chance she gets! I can hardly imagine how Jennifer Lawrence is going to play such a vile and twisted woman later this year on the big screen, so obviously I'll have to go see the movie version as well.
This award winning novel takes place in the North Carolina mountains amidst the Great Depression and follows newlyweds Serena and George Pemberton as they build focus on building and improving their timber empire in the mountains. Serena has decided that nothing or no one will get in their way, she is a resourceful woman and all men lay in awe of her, even her husband. When she discovers that she can bear no children she decides that if she can't have an heir then neither can her husband and she uses her one handed servant to track down and kill the illegitimate son that George sired before they had met.
This is a dark and twisting tale that explores just how deep greed and lust can go. Violence ensues.
Great book, but not a light read.
This award winning novel takes place in the North Carolina mountains amidst the Great Depression and follows newlyweds Serena and George Pemberton as they build focus on building and improving their timber empire in the mountains. Serena has decided that nothing or no one will get in their way, she is a resourceful woman and all men lay in awe of her, even her husband. When she discovers that she can bear no children she decides that if she can't have an heir then neither can her husband and she uses her one handed servant to track down and kill the illegitimate son that George sired before they had met.
This is a dark and twisting tale that explores just how deep greed and lust can go. Violence ensues.
Great book, but not a light read.