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Bad Apple
"It is harsh, hard and unrelenting in its style and tone. The characters are real and that reality is stark, bitter, and at the same time maddeningly beautiful." ~ Sci Fi Saturday Night
After an unfortunate incident on a Maine apple orchard, precocious teen Scree is left with a father she’s not sure is hers, a never-ending list of chores and her flaky brother’s baby, who she is expected to raise.
In a noble move to save the child from an existence like her own, Scree flees to a glitzy resort teeming with young men just ripe for the picking. But even as life with baby becomes all she’d dreamed, Dali-esque visions begin to leach through the gold paint…
Bad Apple is a dark, surreal ride that proves not all things in an orchard are safe to pick.
After an unfortunate incident on a Maine apple orchard, precocious teen Scree is left with a father she’s not sure is hers, a never-ending list of chores and her flaky brother’s baby, who she is expected to raise.
In a noble move to save the child from an existence like her own, Scree flees to a glitzy resort teeming with young men just ripe for the picking. But even as life with baby becomes all she’d dreamed, Dali-esque visions begin to leach through the gold paint…
Bad Apple is a dark, surreal ride that proves not all things in an orchard are safe to pick.
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First published September 1, 2012
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Kristi Petersen Schoonover
38 books19 followersA ghost story writer who still sleeps with the lights on, Kristi Petersen Schoonover’s fiction has appeared in many magazines and anthologies; her traditionally published books include a short story collection, The Shadows Behind, the novel, Bad Apple, and a novella, This Poisoned Ground. She was the recipient of three Norman Mailer Writers Colony Residencies and holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College. She serves as co-host of the Dark Discussions podcast, as founding editor of the dark literary journal 34 Orchard, and is a member of both the New England Horror Writers and the Horror Writers Association. Follow her adventures at kristipetersenschoonover.com.
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July 18, 2017
I received this book as part of the Goodreads "First Reads" program. If you haven't checked this out, be sure and do that. I've gotten a couple of pretty good books through that giveaway opportunity.
Let me start this off by saying I loved this book. Bad Apple is a great story that kept me hooked from the beginning all the way to the end. Scarborough (nicknamed "Scree") is a young girl who lives with her family on an apple orchard. The book starts off with a bang as Scree relates an incident in her early childhood in which she pushes her mother down a well. Normal childhood stuff, right? So we get the idea right away that little Scree is not quite, well, right in the head. Unfortunately, she is the victim of several unfortunate circumstances as she grows up, and winds up getting pretty much stuck on this orchard. As she grows up, she becomes obsessed with patterns. She sees patterns in everything, even the dishes and rotting food piling up in the sink. Eventually, she makes some really bad choices, which take the tale into a really twisted turn.
Kristi Petersen Schoonover is a word artist. One of my favorite passages in the book contains Scree's description of their cider making apparatus.
The autumn days were spent milling cider. I wasn't allowed near all the dangerous, rusty beasts that thrummed and groaned and killed apples under their metal talons and cogs. I snuck down and peered through a space between two boards in the barn wall and watched Father and a couple of boys he'd hired from town torture twenty or so bushels: I was held captive by the rhythms and patterns in every step of the cider process. The prisoners tumbled, severed heads on the sorting rolls, turning green-red-yellow, flashing every part of their skins, and if I focused on one apple and watched it, there was a grand hypnosis in my brain. They vanished head-long into a blade mill, virgins teetering and then plummeting down into the mouth of a volcano, and came out on the other end as this browning, milky goo that was pressed dry of all its juices, squirting into a collection pan like blood: Gush, dribble. Gush, dribble. Gush-spatter-dribble. For hours. Father came back sticky. No matter how much washing he did, he was never clean.
Frequently, in the book, descriptions will pop up like this, that are simply delightful to the imagination. I had not trouble envisioning the scenes being described.
As the story unfolds, Scree's head takes her to some places that are shocking and frightening. The whole segment in the hotel in the second part of the book is absolutely chilling. I thought I had the ending figured out at one point, but I was wrong. I like that, too. Ms. Schoonover kept me guessing and, at the end, provided a twist that I wasn't quite expecting. And part III...well, I can't tell you anything about that. Just know that it is, well, disturbing.
Great book! Very enjoyable.
Let me start this off by saying I loved this book. Bad Apple is a great story that kept me hooked from the beginning all the way to the end. Scarborough (nicknamed "Scree") is a young girl who lives with her family on an apple orchard. The book starts off with a bang as Scree relates an incident in her early childhood in which she pushes her mother down a well. Normal childhood stuff, right? So we get the idea right away that little Scree is not quite, well, right in the head. Unfortunately, she is the victim of several unfortunate circumstances as she grows up, and winds up getting pretty much stuck on this orchard. As she grows up, she becomes obsessed with patterns. She sees patterns in everything, even the dishes and rotting food piling up in the sink. Eventually, she makes some really bad choices, which take the tale into a really twisted turn.
Kristi Petersen Schoonover is a word artist. One of my favorite passages in the book contains Scree's description of their cider making apparatus.
The autumn days were spent milling cider. I wasn't allowed near all the dangerous, rusty beasts that thrummed and groaned and killed apples under their metal talons and cogs. I snuck down and peered through a space between two boards in the barn wall and watched Father and a couple of boys he'd hired from town torture twenty or so bushels: I was held captive by the rhythms and patterns in every step of the cider process. The prisoners tumbled, severed heads on the sorting rolls, turning green-red-yellow, flashing every part of their skins, and if I focused on one apple and watched it, there was a grand hypnosis in my brain. They vanished head-long into a blade mill, virgins teetering and then plummeting down into the mouth of a volcano, and came out on the other end as this browning, milky goo that was pressed dry of all its juices, squirting into a collection pan like blood: Gush, dribble. Gush, dribble. Gush-spatter-dribble. For hours. Father came back sticky. No matter how much washing he did, he was never clean.
Frequently, in the book, descriptions will pop up like this, that are simply delightful to the imagination. I had not trouble envisioning the scenes being described.
As the story unfolds, Scree's head takes her to some places that are shocking and frightening. The whole segment in the hotel in the second part of the book is absolutely chilling. I thought I had the ending figured out at one point, but I was wrong. I like that, too. Ms. Schoonover kept me guessing and, at the end, provided a twist that I wasn't quite expecting. And part III...well, I can't tell you anything about that. Just know that it is, well, disturbing.
Great book! Very enjoyable.
November 16, 2012
If you cant decide what book to read this year, make "BAD APPLE" (written perfectly by Author: Kristi Peterson Schooner) your choice! It grabs your attention from the First page until the very last one. One of those books that is a guarantee you WILL read again.
Scarborough, a young "motherless" girl, growing up in the familys business( An Apple Orchard), and having to be a GROWNUP before she actually is, takes you on a whirlwind of a ride through this novel. Im not going into details because it would ruin the story for you. Just know, its nothing you would expect!!!
I do hope to read everything this Author has written (and will write)!Looking forward to reading more reviews on her novel.
Scarborough, a young "motherless" girl, growing up in the familys business( An Apple Orchard), and having to be a GROWNUP before she actually is, takes you on a whirlwind of a ride through this novel. Im not going into details because it would ruin the story for you. Just know, its nothing you would expect!!!
I do hope to read everything this Author has written (and will write)!Looking forward to reading more reviews on her novel.
March 30, 2013
I read "Bad Apple" through one eye, the way I watch horror movies. I didn't want to put the book down, but there were times when I almost couldn't bear to see what was about to happen to teenage Scree, the protagonist in this novel.
Poor Scree is an intelligent, well-loved child, but something goes very wrong with her life when she loses her mother and then finds herself pressed into service as a housekeeper and babysitter, forced to abandon her own ambitions. Scree goes along with her family's plans, until finally the expectations become too much.
Bad Apple is an excellent portrait of a protagonist in the throes of a nervous breakdown. Schoonover is masterful in her use of foreshadowing,but you won't know just how good she is until you've read the last chapter.
Poor Scree is an intelligent, well-loved child, but something goes very wrong with her life when she loses her mother and then finds herself pressed into service as a housekeeper and babysitter, forced to abandon her own ambitions. Scree goes along with her family's plans, until finally the expectations become too much.
Bad Apple is an excellent portrait of a protagonist in the throes of a nervous breakdown. Schoonover is masterful in her use of foreshadowing,but you won't know just how good she is until you've read the last chapter.
November 15, 2012
***I received this book free through Goodreads First Reads***
In all honesty I was really put off in the beginning, because of the sexual situations with Scree as a child. I gave it a chance still and it was worth it. You only get to see things as Scree perceives them so at times it was hard to tell what was real or a delusion. I was believing for a time that the book would fall under the psychological category better than horror. But, the end cinched it in its place as horror when you think back on the events in the story. It was worth the read.
In all honesty I was really put off in the beginning, because of the sexual situations with Scree as a child. I gave it a chance still and it was worth it. You only get to see things as Scree perceives them so at times it was hard to tell what was real or a delusion. I was believing for a time that the book would fall under the psychological category better than horror. But, the end cinched it in its place as horror when you think back on the events in the story. It was worth the read.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
October 3, 2013
Just so you know, Kristi and I both have our own creepy hotel rooms within the same publishing house. Our "crazy" editor recently tried to introduce us to each other by sending copies of our books to the other. I have yet to hear from Kristi, which I hope lends some credit to my candor and objectivity towards her work. Meaning: I have no other connection to her other than competing for readers. So, with that said, I honestly grade all horror fiction I read on three distinct levels; intellectually, emotionally, and psychologically. - Only Because those unimportant things matter - Especially when attempting to escape self-induced, unavoidable, and inescapable horrors when we think what we are doing is for the best. Much like Scarborough and her small tragedies that would send anyone else to the mad-house. But she worked, and she worked, and found value in every hardship she faced, and used every cycle of abuse to her advantage. But much like the biblical archetype of 'Eve' biting into the apple of knowledge --- we never notice the insects of madness that we chew and consume when feasting upon rotten and forbidden truths such as the Bad Apple.
SOBER EDIT 10/3/2013:
I honestly loved the story, I thought "the accident" in the beginning was executed brilliantly. Not only the "accident" but the aftermath as well, as Scree was shielded (as any other child would be) from ever seeing or knowing the details of how her mother was exhumed from the well. I found it unsettling that her quote unquote "father" never lost his temper, never displayed unjust anger or contempt for Scree. I don't know if that was intentional or not, but I kept waiting for that moment when he exploded in a fury of rage towards his daughters behavior. But then I noticed his anger and resentment was much more insidious and quiet, on a much more emotional and psychological level of child abuse. By making promises and at the last minute breaking them, again and again. In a very subtle way I feel that her father was the cause of her (very interesting) slow decline into the architecture of madness. I also loved the fact that Beckitt grew up to be an urban explorer searching through the ruins of empty buildings and abandoned hotels, as if attempting to piece together some truth or meaning to what had once occurred within these long forgotten places, while not knowing what to believe within her own haunted past -- Honestly, I think that's another story unto itself that needs to be told.
SOBER EDIT 10/3/2013:
I honestly loved the story, I thought "the accident" in the beginning was executed brilliantly. Not only the "accident" but the aftermath as well, as Scree was shielded (as any other child would be) from ever seeing or knowing the details of how her mother was exhumed from the well. I found it unsettling that her quote unquote "father" never lost his temper, never displayed unjust anger or contempt for Scree. I don't know if that was intentional or not, but I kept waiting for that moment when he exploded in a fury of rage towards his daughters behavior. But then I noticed his anger and resentment was much more insidious and quiet, on a much more emotional and psychological level of child abuse. By making promises and at the last minute breaking them, again and again. In a very subtle way I feel that her father was the cause of her (very interesting) slow decline into the architecture of madness. I also loved the fact that Beckitt grew up to be an urban explorer searching through the ruins of empty buildings and abandoned hotels, as if attempting to piece together some truth or meaning to what had once occurred within these long forgotten places, while not knowing what to believe within her own haunted past -- Honestly, I think that's another story unto itself that needs to be told.
February 17, 2014
I don't know that i would catalog this book as horror - On the spectrum of people behaving badly, it's a lot closer to Gone Girl than Carrie. Though... Maybe if you got Gillian Flynn to write a book set in the Overlook Hotel from The Shining (and throw Jodi Picault in the mix to make sure there's some severe childhood trauma in the mix) you would get something kind of like this.
It was a page turner, and an interesting read. The whole second half, I was trying to figure out what was really going on. There would be hints and suggestions that things were clearly not what they seemed (And the story being told from Scree's point of view clearly made no sense - speed solitaire at a cards tournament? Is that even a thing?) but by the end, I realized I had the whole thing backwards - I liked how it all played out.
It was a page turner, and an interesting read. The whole second half, I was trying to figure out what was really going on. There would be hints and suggestions that things were clearly not what they seemed (And the story being told from Scree's point of view clearly made no sense - speed solitaire at a cards tournament? Is that even a thing?) but by the end, I realized I had the whole thing backwards - I liked how it all played out.
November 23, 2012
I received this book through "First Reads." When I entered to win the book, the description made it sound like a horror book. I like to read scary books that frighten me so much I am scared to be at home alone. Once I started reading it, it took at least half of the book before anything seemed really scary. The end explained it all! What a surprise! Overall, an interesting read with a nice twist at the end.
November 27, 2012
so I won a copy of this book from the giveaways and to be honest I am not sure what to think of the book. Scree is a young girl who is left to raise her.brothers child in part two of the book in turns into a weird scene, now mind you this is my first time reading from this author. The book to me was just weird and twisted it was slow I mean really slow it picked up by part two and by part three we was on a role than it ended.
July 8, 2013
Horror is soooo not my thing. So, I can't help those looking for that, as I don't know what others look for in horror, as I don't usually look at all. What I do enjoy, and what I can completely recommend this book for, is stories about women living on the margins; women barely holding their lives and sanity together and then I enjoy watching (through fingers over my face in this one) as it slowly and masterfully falls apart.
This story delivers deliciously!
This story delivers deliciously!
June 3, 2014
In reading as in life, it’s always a good idea to push one’s comfort zone, break routine from time to time, and try something new or different for the purpose of discovery. Reading within the horror genre is that for me, although I’m not sure I would classify Kristi Petersen Schoonover’s novel, Bad Apple, in that category. It certainly does send the occasional shiver of delightful creepiness up and down the spine, but it’s not the sort of story that gives one nightmares.
Bad Apple is the story of teenage Scree, growing up in a Maine apple orchard among an intriguingly dysfunctional and broken family. She is burdened with household chores that never seem to end, among them the raising of her brother’s baby, Beckitt. Fascinated with patterns, Scree allows dishes to pile up because she enjoys the patterns food and mold make on dirty dishes, and household debris accumulates as a kind of funky art form. Her obsessive behavior seems to indicate unhealed psychological wounds, and rightly so. Deep in Scree’s psyche is a childhood memory of pushing her mother down a well, and the memory surfaces in her life and her choices in surreal ways throughout the story.
Rather than allow the baby she grows to love to follow in her life path, Scree escapes the orchard to a colorful resort. It seems to hold within its walls all that Scree has dreamed for her own life, but facades begin to melt and tapestries of story lines unravel to increasingly reveal the odd, the freaky, the inexplicable, the haunting in her surroundings as well as Scree’s inner landscape. Reality becomes ever more meshed with dreamlike scenarios, and the baffled reader must hang on until the ending for a stunning revelation.
Schoonover is a writer who loves her art and is practiced at it. Bad Apple is not her first novel, and her dedication to excellence in the written word shines here. Descriptions are vivid and tense, reeling the reader into her character’s ever more twisted world:
“My fingers went numb, my toes stiff, my teeth chattered, and my breath came in white puffs: I was instantly freezing. I sat up, and for some reason, I was embarrassed as Adam and Eve in the Garden the second they’d discovered they were naked. I marathoned across the icy broken cabana cement to the door that—strangely—was stuck and took three yanks to open. The wallpaper glared, each stripe a crowbar threatening to bash in my skull. I ran up the stairs, down the hall, tripped over something—what, I didn’t know—and crumpled against a wall mural depicting gnarled, shadow-dark trees under an igniting sky. It made me miss the orchard.
“The orchard that was no longer my home. The mural’s tree limbs swayed and called to me, cursing me for leaving behind the bobbing Gingergolds, the incinerating summers, the raw spring, the moon-indigo winters, the November afternoons when the gray sun was an omniscient eye.” (pg. 150-151)
Kristi Petersen Schoonover is the author of the short story collection Skeletons in the Swimmin’ Hole—Tales from Haunted Disney, and her short fiction has appeared in Carpe Articulum Literary Review, Full of Crow, Eclectic Flash, The Adirondack Review, Barbaric Yawp, The Illuminata, Macabre Cadaver, Morpheus Tales, Citizen Culture, MudRock: Stories & Tales, New Witch Magazine, Spilt Milk, Toasted Cheese, and a host of others, including several anthologies. She hosts the paranormal fiction segment on The Ghostman & Demon Hunter Show broadcast and serves as an editor for Read Short Fiction. An interview with the author is featured in The Smoking Poet’s Summer 2014 Issue #26.
Bad Apple is the story of teenage Scree, growing up in a Maine apple orchard among an intriguingly dysfunctional and broken family. She is burdened with household chores that never seem to end, among them the raising of her brother’s baby, Beckitt. Fascinated with patterns, Scree allows dishes to pile up because she enjoys the patterns food and mold make on dirty dishes, and household debris accumulates as a kind of funky art form. Her obsessive behavior seems to indicate unhealed psychological wounds, and rightly so. Deep in Scree’s psyche is a childhood memory of pushing her mother down a well, and the memory surfaces in her life and her choices in surreal ways throughout the story.
Rather than allow the baby she grows to love to follow in her life path, Scree escapes the orchard to a colorful resort. It seems to hold within its walls all that Scree has dreamed for her own life, but facades begin to melt and tapestries of story lines unravel to increasingly reveal the odd, the freaky, the inexplicable, the haunting in her surroundings as well as Scree’s inner landscape. Reality becomes ever more meshed with dreamlike scenarios, and the baffled reader must hang on until the ending for a stunning revelation.
Schoonover is a writer who loves her art and is practiced at it. Bad Apple is not her first novel, and her dedication to excellence in the written word shines here. Descriptions are vivid and tense, reeling the reader into her character’s ever more twisted world:
“My fingers went numb, my toes stiff, my teeth chattered, and my breath came in white puffs: I was instantly freezing. I sat up, and for some reason, I was embarrassed as Adam and Eve in the Garden the second they’d discovered they were naked. I marathoned across the icy broken cabana cement to the door that—strangely—was stuck and took three yanks to open. The wallpaper glared, each stripe a crowbar threatening to bash in my skull. I ran up the stairs, down the hall, tripped over something—what, I didn’t know—and crumpled against a wall mural depicting gnarled, shadow-dark trees under an igniting sky. It made me miss the orchard.
“The orchard that was no longer my home. The mural’s tree limbs swayed and called to me, cursing me for leaving behind the bobbing Gingergolds, the incinerating summers, the raw spring, the moon-indigo winters, the November afternoons when the gray sun was an omniscient eye.” (pg. 150-151)
Kristi Petersen Schoonover is the author of the short story collection Skeletons in the Swimmin’ Hole—Tales from Haunted Disney, and her short fiction has appeared in Carpe Articulum Literary Review, Full of Crow, Eclectic Flash, The Adirondack Review, Barbaric Yawp, The Illuminata, Macabre Cadaver, Morpheus Tales, Citizen Culture, MudRock: Stories & Tales, New Witch Magazine, Spilt Milk, Toasted Cheese, and a host of others, including several anthologies. She hosts the paranormal fiction segment on The Ghostman & Demon Hunter Show broadcast and serves as an editor for Read Short Fiction. An interview with the author is featured in The Smoking Poet’s Summer 2014 Issue #26.
March 13, 2014
Wow - what a solid story! It was a little meandering, but the ending - whew! I had to flip back through the book and reevaluate how I was viewing certain scenes, actions, and character development in light of the ending. Not many could pull off that sort of abrupt ending without seeing trite and insincere, but this author did it!
The tale follows Scarborough (Scree) thought a series of unfortunate events and, what I thought were, her coping mechanisms of art, patterns, and care. With a mother who passed on, a lonely life on a Maine orchard with a father that may not be her's, a jacked up brother, and a life of doors closing right as she reaches for them Scree begins to interact with the world in a different manner.
It almost sounds like she is borderline Aspergers with her fascination with pattern repetition, textures, and colors as she weaves a world around her with occasional madness breaking through of, what I thought were metaphorical rot and dilapidation, but was much, much more..
As I said - the ending gave me that "WHAT?! I need to reevaluate how I was reading the entire piece" akin to say 'The Sixth Sense' or 'Flight Club'.
Being led along the color and pattern filled path to have it abruptly change in such a way to need a reevaluation as great!
If you don't mind a bit of tedious and bland scenes the over all psychological makeup of Scree is something great to read.
The tale follows Scarborough (Scree) thought a series of unfortunate events and, what I thought were, her coping mechanisms of art, patterns, and care. With a mother who passed on, a lonely life on a Maine orchard with a father that may not be her's, a jacked up brother, and a life of doors closing right as she reaches for them Scree begins to interact with the world in a different manner.
It almost sounds like she is borderline Aspergers with her fascination with pattern repetition, textures, and colors as she weaves a world around her with occasional madness breaking through of, what I thought were metaphorical rot and dilapidation, but was much, much more..
As I said - the ending gave me that "WHAT?! I need to reevaluate how I was reading the entire piece" akin to say 'The Sixth Sense' or 'Flight Club'.
Being led along the color and pattern filled path to have it abruptly change in such a way to need a reevaluation as great!
If you don't mind a bit of tedious and bland scenes the over all psychological makeup of Scree is something great to read.
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December 23, 2012I received this book as a First Reads promotion.
As a teacher, I have known child caregivers, which made this book even more disturbing to read. To think that these children could someday end up in that downward spiral of mental illness, that's tough to bear.
As a reader, the book was a very good read. The author kept me intrigued throughout. And the "enlightening" twist at the end had me going back and re-reading certain scenes earlier in the book, as I realized what was really happening during those scenes that I didn't quite understand as I read them the first time.
I would definitely recommend this book for readers of horror-fiction and psychological thrillers.
As a teacher, I have known child caregivers, which made this book even more disturbing to read. To think that these children could someday end up in that downward spiral of mental illness, that's tough to bear.
As a reader, the book was a very good read. The author kept me intrigued throughout. And the "enlightening" twist at the end had me going back and re-reading certain scenes earlier in the book, as I realized what was really happening during those scenes that I didn't quite understand as I read them the first time.
I would definitely recommend this book for readers of horror-fiction and psychological thrillers.
February 26, 2016
If this was supposed to be a horror story, then it failed. It's sure weird, a little at the beginning and more and more so towards the end. And the girl who tells the story is a bit creepy. But most of the time I wouldn't call it scary, I just didn't care much about her and what happened to her. At one point, about 3/4 in, I was already going to give up and stop reading.
Then I read in a comment that the ending improves things, so I finished the whole book. Yes, it does. It even brings back the creepines to it all, in retrospective. It's such a pity it doesn't work like that from the beginning, it would make the reading much more worthwhile.
Then I read in a comment that the ending improves things, so I finished the whole book. Yes, it does. It even brings back the creepines to it all, in retrospective. It's such a pity it doesn't work like that from the beginning, it would make the reading much more worthwhile.
December 15, 2015
Not a bad read. The author has a good writing flow but what super irritated me was a part in the middle that should've been italicized but was not... Anyway, that was the only thing. Lots of apples mentioned so it lived up to it's title and it was quite Dali-esque as was described in the summary. I'm looking forward to more of her works.
FTC - I received this book for free through Goodreads giveaway.
FTC - I received this book for free through Goodreads giveaway.
November 27, 2012
I am from Maine, and grew up on an apple orchard, so this is what first perked my interest in this story. This is an unusual story, not so much of a horror story as some of the reviews suggested, but in a way, disturbing. Hints were strewn throughout the story but the "truth" was not reveiled until the end. But don't rush to the back pages or you will miss out on an intreaging story. What came to my mind was "The Beans of Egypt, Maine", quirkey and different.
May 26, 2013
4.5. I couldn't put this down. With heavy undertones of abandonment and the unfair circumstances of life, this was a strong novel about a girl trying to break free. Totally creepy ending, too. Two thumbs up!
August 11, 2016
Okay, I can tell just a couple of chapters in that this isn't my kind of book. I read for escapism. I'm not into angst and character development through trial and adversity, and this appears to be exactly that kind of a tale. Moving on.
August 15, 2014
Bad Apple is a haunting and beautifully written tale about a young woman fleeing from the confines of her rural life, and from the deepest flaws within herself. Ambitious, evocative, and deeply psychological. Highly recommended.
December 4, 2012
I won this book on goodreads. It has a good story different from what I am use to reading but it was good.
March 6, 2013
DNF. I couldn't get past the first few pages of this book. The story or the writing style did not work for me.
January 25, 2013
This book started out as calmly as it could but by the end erupted into something that I didn't expect.Good job!Nice way to make us(the reader) be pleasantly surprised.
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