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Cicada (2000)

by J. Eric Laing(Favorite Author)

3.52 of 5 Votes: 5

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review 1: Honestly, I think I bought this for my Kindle because it was so cheap-- about $3, rather than three times that for plenty of other books. It sat there in my queue for quite awhile before I picked it up and absolutely devoured it while sitting on a beach in Thailand. It's short (just over 150 pages), but still manages to soak you in images of a sweltering Southern summer and the lives of all its characters in tension and tragedy.
review 2: The author is clearly a gifted writer, but he needs to work on improving his storytelling. It was easy to become immersed in this novel, but it ends abruptly. Perhaps the novel would read better if it simply ended immediately following the climax, but to continue the way it did dragged my rating down from five to three stars. ... moreEither go more into depth about what happened after the climax, or leave it completely up to the reader. less

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