Books by Steven Amsterdam
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review 1: I plowed through this book in a couple of days. Granted, it is a short read, but I was so curious about the mysterious powers that the family members developed, and still am. I wish the book had been longer and had included more detail about the powers and how they affected each ...
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review 1: Picked this up on a whim at the library and basically read the whole thing in one day. It helps that I'm a fan of post-apocalyptic fiction but even so, I found this collection of interconnected short stories to be more than its genre. The choices of details to carry across stori...
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review 1: In the first chapter of this wonderfully written book, we are introduced to a pair of sisters and their families. In each subsequent chapter, the story focuses on one family member and an extraordinary power that they come to possess. Also, in each chapter they story moves ahead ...
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review 1: I struggled to finish this. Some of the stories are amazing, some are clearly filler and lack the depth and charm of the first few. I think the problem is that while all the characters are interesting, few are familiar or relate-able. And while that's not the worst thing in the w...