Scan barcode
A review by thrifty_librarian
The Kept by James Scott
I clicked on a Goodreads ad for this because it looked super interesting. However, I will not be reading it. If the writer/editor/publisher can't even properly use grammar in the first sentence of the teaser, God only knows what a mess the rest of the book will be:
"Set in rural New York state at the turn of the twentieth century, superb new talent James Scott makes his literary debut with The Kept--a propulsive novel reminiscent of the works of Michael Ondaatje, Cormac McCarthy, and Bonnie Jo Campbell, in which a mother and her young son embark on a quest to avenge a terrible and violent tragedy that has shattered their secluded family."
So either James Scott is roughly 130 years old and was dropped in New York as a child, or somebody didn't take enough composition courses in college before graduating with a degree in ceramic ashtray making. BOOM!
This is mostly a warning to myself, but I was feeling snarky. Haters will note that I did not give the book a rating.
"Set in rural New York state at the turn of the twentieth century, superb new talent James Scott makes his literary debut with The Kept--a propulsive novel reminiscent of the works of Michael Ondaatje, Cormac McCarthy, and Bonnie Jo Campbell, in which a mother and her young son embark on a quest to avenge a terrible and violent tragedy that has shattered their secluded family."
So either James Scott is roughly 130 years old and was dropped in New York as a child, or somebody didn't take enough composition courses in college before graduating with a degree in ceramic ashtray making. BOOM!
This is mostly a warning to myself, but I was feeling snarky. Haters will note that I did not give the book a rating.