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The Blood Girls
Book by Cook, Meira
211 pages, Paperback
First published May 16, 1998
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June 10, 2008
This book was not about Stigmata. It was about how a great poet wrote an unorganized and very wordy novel.
Daniel Harpern is a reporter who travels back to his home to his lousy hometown to investigate an 11 yr old girl with supposed marks of the stigmata. The books end with him falling in love with a doctor and it turns into a murder mystery. The stigmata details were anything but poetic.
I personally don't believe in Stigmata and I'm not Catholic but I believe it makes fantastic fiction. Stigmata is supernatural, creepy, violently erotic, mystical, and fascinating.
This book was a lesson for me. When I picked up the book from a used bookstore I didn't realize Cook was a poet. I happen to be a poet who is attempting to write a novella about Stigmata. It was a coincidence that I found it. This book was a warning of how not to write my novel. The character development is poorly done. The story does not flow because of Cooks feathery poetic dialog. There are so many adjectives and descriptives that I lost my place and stopped many times to wonder what the heck was supposed to be reading about.
I will totally read Cook's poetry. This book should have been a book of poetry about Stigmata. This should really have not been a novel.
Daniel Harpern is a reporter who travels back to his home to his lousy hometown to investigate an 11 yr old girl with supposed marks of the stigmata. The books end with him falling in love with a doctor and it turns into a murder mystery. The stigmata details were anything but poetic.
I personally don't believe in Stigmata and I'm not Catholic but I believe it makes fantastic fiction. Stigmata is supernatural, creepy, violently erotic, mystical, and fascinating.
This book was a lesson for me. When I picked up the book from a used bookstore I didn't realize Cook was a poet. I happen to be a poet who is attempting to write a novella about Stigmata. It was a coincidence that I found it. This book was a warning of how not to write my novel. The character development is poorly done. The story does not flow because of Cooks feathery poetic dialog. There are so many adjectives and descriptives that I lost my place and stopped many times to wonder what the heck was supposed to be reading about.
I will totally read Cook's poetry. This book should have been a book of poetry about Stigmata. This should really have not been a novel.
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