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The Survivors (2011)

by Amanda Havard(Favorite Author)

3.72 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0983319022 (ISBN13: 9780983319023)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Chafie Press, LLC

series

The Survivors

review 1: I love reading books by indie authors, because they write what they want to read and as Forrest Gump stated, "you never know what you are going to get" when you bite into it. The survivors are a group of children sent out from Salem, Massachusetts to Montana to die, but instead they live and become isolationists. There is some action, but mostly a story of transition and conflicting desires. This was a fun read for me.
review 2: My complaints about this book can be summarized as follows: number 1= false advertising. I assumed (more fool me) that the book would be more about the Salem witch trials...and not about "Twilight"-esque "romance..." which leads me to complaint #2, which is that the prose in this book is SO PURPLE that I fear my fingertips may be per... moremanently stained indigo from it. Finally, #3= it reads like Creative Writing 101, in that all of the protagonist's clothing, vehicles, accessories, etc. must be carefully labelled, i.e. "I slung my Fendi bag over the shoulder of my Tahari jacket and got behind the wheel of my Mercedes LX..." yiggh. Rather than doing what that good teacherly advice is supposed to do--make scenes come alive--it just makes every scene turn into an over-iced cake that collapses under the weight of so much Crisco. Oh, and it's a chocolate cake from Betty Crocker. less

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