The Cure for Death by Lightning
Registered by Stoepbrak of Cape Town, Western Cape South Africa on 2/1/2012
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
1 journaler for this copy...
Journal Entry 1 by Stoepbrak from Cape Town, Western Cape South Africa on Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Synopsis (Credit: www.amazon.co.uk)
The remote Turtle Valley in British Columbia is home to fifteen-year-old Beth Weeks and a community of eccentric but familiar characters. There, amidst a stunning landscape of purple swallows and green skies, strange and unsettling events occur: children go missing, a girl is mauled by a crazy bear, and Beth too is being pursued ...
(Bought second-hand at Help the Rural Child Charity Bookshop, Victoria Road, Mowbray.)
The remote Turtle Valley in British Columbia is home to fifteen-year-old Beth Weeks and a community of eccentric but familiar characters. There, amidst a stunning landscape of purple swallows and green skies, strange and unsettling events occur: children go missing, a girl is mauled by a crazy bear, and Beth too is being pursued ...
(Bought second-hand at Help the Rural Child Charity Bookshop, Victoria Road, Mowbray.)
At first this appeared to be an impressive novel, especially as debut: some unique characters and interesting angles. An intriguing, dark undercurrent was building up.
Then the plot started to unravel for me. The author doesn't shirk back from showing the horror potential of human behaviour — but gratuitously so, at times, as if she had a list of social ills to tick off one by one. Towards the end it became unconvincing and one-sided. Disappointing, because the potential for a better result was there.
Journal Entry 3 by Stoepbrak at Haas Coffee, Rose St in Cape Town, Western Cape South Africa on Tuesday, January 21, 2014
Released 10 yrs ago (1/21/2014 UTC) at Haas Coffee, Rose St in Cape Town, Western Cape South Africa
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
To be left on one of the tables.
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