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Deadville (2008)

by Ron Koertge(Favorite Author)

3.4 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0763635804 (ISBN13: 9780763635800)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Candlewick Press

review 1: This book started out strong but petered out towards the ending. The characters started interesting and the story had the possibility of going into some really interesting directions with meditations on life, love and loss. Unfortunately the story went nowhere and became a bland moralist tale by the end. The author did have some very good turns of phrase and descriptors at times that made me laugh out loud but I found the story just got dull by the ending and left me unsatisfied. I was annoyed that the main character's transformation didn't lead to a more developed story line and even more annoyed that several interesting characters were either abandoned by the main character or not fleshed out more. This book starts strong but ends with a whimper instead of a ... morebang.
review 2: Alright, so Deadville really sounded like a real treat when I first picked it up and to be honest it wasn't terrible. Although having said that it did lack a lot of detail in parts and occasionally bored me. But I persisted with it and finished it. It came to the end and the coma patient woke up, all is good and then it ends a little after that. So to sum up the book in one word would be: lacking. Ryan pretty much fell into a relationship and then tried to take it from there. Andy got busted as expected and there were scattered friends along the way. This book could have been one of those huge life changing books if it was only detailed a little more and more feeling was written into the characters. To say the least I did have some favourable parts such as Ryan's random thoughts of memories and lyrics, not to mention he listens to Alexisonfire which I liked. I also liked the humor in it too. It was in general a little weak and I hope that Ron Koertge other books aren't that way otherwise they will not be getting a look in from me. less

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