Books by McCormick Templeman
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review 1: I read this book as an assignment for a conference I attended and enjoyed it. The writer does a very nice job balancing world building with narrative and establishing her characters with lyrical economy. I also enjoyed the "village under siege" theme with various parties under su...
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review 1: This is a fun book about many things: grief, loss, trauma, coming-of-age, and social class. Like Lemony Snicket, Templeman blends the vocabulary of an erudite with the vocabulary of a typical teenage girl, only she leaves the context as the only clue toward definition. Furthermor...
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review 1: This book reads quickly and is entertaining, though the novel seemed to retell Snow White in a way that has already been done. That is, it seemed like a variation of Neil Gaiman's much earlier Snow White retelling "Snow, Glass, Apples," in which Snow White is also an undead murde...
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review 1: I had originally planned 5 out of 5. It had the lucky streak for me until the last two chapters. I was psyched, it had a fantastic mystery flow, the characters were annoying but the main plot blocked that out for me, and I enjoyed learning more with each chapter. Through the book...