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Not My Kind
Tanner Barrett lives with her parents and brother in a mansion overlooking the town of Spooner Pass, Colorado, but life isn't as perfect as the four-car garage made it seem. While her family is close-knit and happy, the rest of the town vilifies them for their small chain of medical marijuana dispensaries. Some of the most hateful critics come from within the walls of her own high school, as the students torment her and the teachers--several of them customers in her parents' stores--despise her for representing an entire counter-culture that society has always feared and looked down on. Even though the law said it was legal, the town of Spooner Pass never said it was right. And the ugly accusations from people in town, accusations that have nothing to do with healing and a lot to do with addiction, might just have a little ring of truth to them...
250 pages, Paperback
First published June 22, 2013
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Lorca Damon
12 books40 followersLorca is a teacher in a juvenile correctional facility, which is a tremendous influence on her writing. She writes the books that her students wish they could read.
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July 31, 2014
I've read other work by this author, but I wasn't sure what to expect when I started reading this one.... after all, the cover is a big marijuana plant.
The story is told from the point of view of 16-year-old Tanner. Her family is rich because they own a chain of pharmacies that sell legal marijuana - legal in the state of Colorado that is, but not legal federally. Because of the family business, Tanner is looked down upon at school - by her schoolmates and her teachers - and has zero friends, until a new girl with Aspergers comes along. After a particularly bad bullying incident, she convinces her parents to let her homeschool. This is all well and good, but it leaves her twin brother in school to cope with all of the crap that used to get thrown at Tanner.
Then the unthinkable happens - one of the stores gets raided by the Feds... and things go quickly from bad to worse to even worser. I mean, seriously... I didn't think any more bad stuff could happen, and IT DID!
This author has a gift of storytelling. I was drawn into the story and the characters, and I cared for them, and I enjoyed reading it. The ending both shocked and horrified me. And the book made me think.
So why only four stars? The author left some unanswered questions, a few that seem/are obvious in certain parts of the country, but not so obvious in others. (I don't want to give away the story, but there is a scene where gasoline just happens to show up. In Colorado, where the story is set, they would have gasoline handy for running generators during power failures.... where I live in the South, not so much.)
If the author chose to do a slight revision and answer those questions, this book would be perfect.
Still, highly recommended for both the storytelling and the message.
The story is told from the point of view of 16-year-old Tanner. Her family is rich because they own a chain of pharmacies that sell legal marijuana - legal in the state of Colorado that is, but not legal federally. Because of the family business, Tanner is looked down upon at school - by her schoolmates and her teachers - and has zero friends, until a new girl with Aspergers comes along. After a particularly bad bullying incident, she convinces her parents to let her homeschool. This is all well and good, but it leaves her twin brother in school to cope with all of the crap that used to get thrown at Tanner.
Then the unthinkable happens - one of the stores gets raided by the Feds... and things go quickly from bad to worse to even worser. I mean, seriously... I didn't think any more bad stuff could happen, and IT DID!
This author has a gift of storytelling. I was drawn into the story and the characters, and I cared for them, and I enjoyed reading it. The ending both shocked and horrified me. And the book made me think.
So why only four stars? The author left some unanswered questions, a few that seem/are obvious in certain parts of the country, but not so obvious in others. (I don't want to give away the story, but there is a scene where gasoline just happens to show up. In Colorado, where the story is set, they would have gasoline handy for running generators during power failures.... where I live in the South, not so much.)
If the author chose to do a slight revision and answer those questions, this book would be perfect.
Still, highly recommended for both the storytelling and the message.
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