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Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

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Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
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Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

I'd heard recommendations of this before reading it, and loved Animal Dreams by kingsolver when I read it earlier in the year. 

This just blew me away. Incredibly sad and beautifully written. Perhaps it feels like a pretentious thing to say but it also felt really important- placing that Dickensian morality tale of how systems prevent people in poverty from escaping its cycle into a modern context where it fits so well. I had to stop reading for a couple of days in the middle because it is very dark but I loved it overall

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roveronez's review

4.0
dark sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

A great book though deeply sad and disturbing as it treats drug addiction, different losses (parent loss, child loss etc). I’m taking one star off because I felt like it dragged a bit in the middle, so it wasn’t so fluid for me.

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Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

It's been a long time since a book gripped my emotions the way Kingsolver did in "Demon Copperhead". As a mother, and as someone who had bad relationships and dabbled in drugs in my teens, this book accurately reflected the struggles of adolescence in a poverty-stricken community. 

I found myself throughout the day thinking about the characters in the book as if they were people I knew in real life. I wanted to yell at the characters, and hold Daemon and give him good advice and a hot meal. 

Such a great read. Should be required for high school or college. 

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