Mark Childress

After some consideration, I have lowered my rating to 1-star. The more I think about this book, the less I like it. I suppose for me it was not "okay", so I am revising accordingly.
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This book was a big disappointment to me. For the first 3/4 of the book, I found the plot ludicrous. I attended high school in the 60s in the South. The events portrayed in this book could never have happened in my school at that time nor in any school in my state.

In last 1/4 of the book, there was improvement, but I felt it came too late to do much in the way of salvaging the plot, and in truth, I had to imagine this taking place in more recent times to make even that part of the book work.

I would have given it a 1-star rating had I not thought the writing itself was of a higher quality than the plot deserved. In fact, I would have stopped reading it less than halfway through had it not been a group read.

I’m afraid Childress is not going on my list of authors to read more of.… (más)