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5wamp_creature's review against another edition
4.0
Unusual. Characters make plans for life but life insists on making the plans itself.
I was emotionally sucked in to the climactic moment. It really worked well and could have gone either way. Spare writing but just right for the place and mood.
I was emotionally sucked in to the climactic moment. It really worked well and could have gone either way. Spare writing but just right for the place and mood.
lindsayb's review against another edition
3.0
I kept wanting to stop, but I couldn't. I'm still trying to figure out why.
etienne02's review against another edition
5.0
Difficile de résumé ou d'expliquer une telle histoire. Il s'agit, à mon avis, d'une critique sociale, ou l'auteur démontre à qu'elle point tout le monde, de nos jours, sont blasés par absolument tout. les personnages sont attachants, extrêmes et peut-être un peu caricaturales dans leur comportement, mais tout de même francs et vrais. La finale termine tout de même sur une note d'espoir, deux en faits, la première est que les gens peuvent s'améliorer et que même dans un acte horrible, du bon peu en ressortir. Bref, difficile d'être très clair pour cette critique, mais j'ai bien aimé et je crois que ce livre vaut le détour!
alyssa_hollingsworth's review against another edition
3.0
As a writer, I appreciate what's being done in this book. As a human being, I still don't know what to think of the ending.
christinalepre's review against another edition
5.0
Excellent read about three characters, a teacher and two middle school students in a desolate shithole hick town in Florida. The author completely nails Florida, btw. I loved the prose, which was spare but cut right to the heart of every character. I knew nothing about this book going into it, and I think it's better that way. Highly recommended.
leaflibrary's review against another edition
3.0
"[He] didn't especially feel like a murderer, but maybe you didn't until you murdered. He had never felt, particularly, like a non-murderer. Someone had to commit all these murders that were always being committed. Why not him? Why couldn't his be the story of a killer?"
nicka's review against another edition
4.0
Brandon's writing saved this from being a three or even a two star review because, honestly, not much really happened. He was kind of treading water til the payoff at the end. Probably should have been a novella instead.
Maybe it's because its what i was listening to at the time, but if you take a listen to Zola Jesus' 'I Can't Stand' that helps kinda sum up this book.
Maybe it's because its what i was listening to at the time, but if you take a listen to Zola Jesus' 'I Can't Stand' that helps kinda sum up this book.