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Winter's Bone by Daniel Woodrell

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rosemwood's review against another edition

4.0

A very fast-paced, easy read that has been made into a movie starring Jennifer Lawrence as the main character, Ree. The female main character has such a strong personality for just being 16. The author also did a great job with the other characters. Very strong characters. I would even say that the setting was even a strong character in this short novel. The author did a good job with descriptions. At times, the author's writing style seemed poetic, and I was not a fan of those times

ingo_lembcke's review against another edition

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3.0

More like 2.5, not 3. Ending was more or less expected. At least the film is with Jennifer Lawrence. Bleak. At least it was short, 0.5 for that, so the 3 stars maybe justified. Not my type of book but I knew that beforehand. And I did not waste any money on it, a small relief.
I still have to watch the film. There is no reason for me to read another book by the same writer or read this again.

alexander_winter's review against another edition

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adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Loveable characters? It's complicated

3.0

angus_mckeogh's review against another edition

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3.0

Well written but honestly just not terribly interesting. I think I went into it with too many expectations (based on a successful movie adaptation & a plug by Anthony Bourdain) but ended up just finding it average as far as the story goes. Just slightly better than okay. I liked Woe to Live On much better.

vegdogmom's review against another edition

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3.0

Strong story, strong premise, but a writing style and prose that felt so at odds with the setting and the dialogue that I kept getting ripped out of the work on the whole.

I like purple prose as much as the next guy (or maybe slightly more) but this was distracting