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Save Yourself (2013)

by Kelly Braffet(Favorite Author)

3.57 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0385347340 (ISBN13: 9780385347341)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Crown

review 1: I wanted to know where the story was going to go and what would happen to the characters but I also found myself wanting to be done already because I was just so annoyed at the constant bad circumstances that the characters left themselves in. I know that was some of the point, how people can get stuck and learned helplessness and all that, but really I wanted to read about people figuring out how to save themselves. Not all doom and gloom.
review 2: Sometimes in MFA workshops, the author puts in a small detail that completely overshadows the story and grabs my attention so hard I suddenly don't care at all about the main story. This book is a textbook example. Everything I found compelling - the vampire cult and Justinian's cult-leader persona, the super Chri... morestian parents with a metal-head past, the father who killed a boy drunk driving, the schizophrenic mother who ties grocery bags to neighbor's trees - was background noise. I almost want this book to be rewritten through the POV of the supporting cast. I blitzed through the ending, which I found more than a little ridiculous. This book would have made an amazing TV series on the CW or UPN, but I can honestly say I've never watched a single show on either. less

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