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The Beginners (2011)

by Rebecca Wolff(Favorite Author)

2.51 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1594487995 (ISBN13: 9781594487996)

languge

English

genre

Young Adult Fiction

publisher

Riverhead Hardcover

review 1: I normally love reading anything that involves the Salem Witch Trials. I just find the time period fascinating. This though? Just god awful. Seriously. The connection to the Salem Witch Trials is pretty paper thin. I felt duped reading this, there's so much skeevy sexual activity going on and nothing about the cover or the synopsis to hint at it being there. This thing sounded like a YA 50 Shades. Blech. Cannot, will not recommend.
review 2: The writing is lyrical, but the characters and plot simply do not develop beyond the scope of the dreamy 15-year-old narrator's confused perspective. There was so much more I wish the author had done with the "lost towns," and the gruesome dream sequences. Instead, the characters simply fell asleep for long periods of time,... more drifting in and out of dreams. The young Ginger is inexplicably unaware of her own past, has never left her small town, and seems not to have internet access either. Her attachment to the couple who corrupt her innocence isn't believable. In short, a lot of potential. It is a first novel, and there was enough here that I would read a second book by the author. less

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