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At nineteen, Hannah LeClaire already has a reputation in the village of Whitefish Harbor, where she grew up. She is a solitary young woman who is given to long walks along the coast of Lake Superior. On a cold April day, she wanders into a dilapidated house and meets Martin Reed, who has moved to Michigan’s remote Upper Peninsula to renovate the condemned Victorian once owned by his aunt. Quickly Hannah realizes that Martin is an outcast, too, and unlike anyone she has ever met.
Fire Point is the story of the summer Hannah and Martin attempt to rebuild their lives while restoring the house. But when Sean Colby returns to Michigan after being discharged early from military service, he cannot accept the fact that Hannah, his former girlfriend, is moving on without him—and commits a series of increasingly violent acts against Hannah, Martin, and the house. Written in spare, graceful prose, Fire Point is a thrilling and suspenseful story of love, vengeance, and renewal, set against the pristine beauty of one of America’s great inland seas.
Fire Point is the story of the summer Hannah and Martin attempt to rebuild their lives while restoring the house. But when Sean Colby returns to Michigan after being discharged early from military service, he cannot accept the fact that Hannah, his former girlfriend, is moving on without him—and commits a series of increasingly violent acts against Hannah, Martin, and the house. Written in spare, graceful prose, Fire Point is a thrilling and suspenseful story of love, vengeance, and renewal, set against the pristine beauty of one of America’s great inland seas.
304 pages, Paperback
First published August 24, 2004
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John Smolens
21 books42 followersAccording to Northern Michigan University's website, John Smolens "...has published five novels Cold, The Invisible World, Fire Point, Angel’s Head, and Winter by Degrees, and one collection of short stories (My One and Only Bomb Shelter.) Cold was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, and the Detroit Free Press selected Fire Point as the best book by a Michigan author in 2004... His short stories and essays have appeared in various magazines and newspapers, including: the Virginia Quarterly, the William and Mary Review, the Massachusetts Review, Yankee, Redbook, the Los Angeles Times, and the Boston Globe. His work has been translated into Dutch, Greek, Italian, and Turkish, and has been published the United Kingdom by Hodder & Stoughton, London."
His most recent publication is The Anarchist and has been well received.
His most recent publication is The Anarchist and has been well received.
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March 2, 2012
A few years ago I sat next to John Smolens at a table in the "authors tent" at the annual Wild Blueberry Festival in Paradise, Michigan, near the top of the eastern U.P. It seemed an unlikely locale for the world-wide release of his latest novel, "Fire Point". But then, perhaps it wasn't after all. Smolens is an English professor at Northern Michigan University, and the setting for his new book is, once again, the U.P. The town, Whitefish Harbor, is fictional. As he did in his previous novel, "Cold", Smolens tantalizes readers like me who read with an atlas close at hand with town names that are "almost" real, employing parts of real place names, but putting them in slightly the wrong place. All you know for sure is that the story takes place somewhere near Marquette, on the shores of Lake Superior.
Whitefish Harbor, like the real villages of Paradise, Trout Lake or Grand Marais, is instantly recognizable as one of those small, isolated often soul-deadening communities surrounded by sand, swamps and second-growth scrub pine forests, which survives mostly on the tourist trade during the brief months of summer. This insular small-town setting is key to the novel's events (which take place over a six-month period from April to September), as they delicately and inevitably unfold in the inimitable prose style Smolens has established and perfected in his earlier work. Employment opportunities are few and severely limited. A key character is introduced in the following manner: "Places like Whitefish Harbor send kids like Sean Colby out into the world after high school. They go to college, they enlist in the service."
Sean Colby could easily be listed as the villain of "Fire Point", but that would be oversimplifying an extremely intricate feat of story-telling, because as the plot evolves, you learn a bit about his childhood and are privy to a not very pretty picture of his parents' marriage and their own particular disappointments and failings. You quickly come to the conclusion that there are no clear-cut good guys or bad guys in this tale, only regular people with all the usual complexities who are trying to find their place in a life they didn't necessarily choose.
Hannah LeClaire, a mature 19 year-old, is the girl all the boys and men in town follow longingly with their eyes, but she had given herself, too soon, to Sean Colby the previous year. A fatherless loner herself, Hannah was drawn to Sean's "leader of the pack" aura. But something was "twisted" in Sean, and when Hannah became pregnant, he gave in to the "solution" proposed by his parents, then disappeared into the army. Ten months later, discharged early for not yet clear reasons, Sean shows up back in Whitefish Harbor and begins stalking Hannah and her new boyfriend, 29 year-old Martin Reed, a Chicago man who had spent his childhood summers in the village, his mother's hometown.
Early on in the narrative, Reed would appear to be the obvious hero of the piece, but nothing is ever quite what it appears to be in Smolens' fiction. Likely heroes become victims and unlikely people become heroes.
Joseph "Pearly" Blankenship Jr., 44 years old, part Ojibwa Indian, loner, barfly, and sometime carpenter, is such an unlikely hero. Involved in an inertia-fed listless affair with a local bartender, who is yet another single mom in a sea of failed relationships, Pearly is almost a stereotypical product of his town, except for one thing. He reads. Probably the most prolific borrower from the town library, he knows his Shakespeare, as well as when to use "whom vs. who." An anomaly in a town of non-readers and small-minded failures, Pearly has become the primary "usual suspect" any time a civic prank or petty crime occurs. He is regularly detained, harrassed and humiliated by Frank Colby, Sean's father and a frustrated long-time cop who knows he will never be chief of police. That post is held by Buzz Gagnon, an overweight cartoon of a law enforcement officer who can't stop himself from snacking on whatever is at hand as he questions suspects and is more concerned with maintaining the status quo than with solving crimes. Hounded by Colby, Pearly is regularly defended by Owen Nault III, who, like Frank Colby, grew up in Whitefish Harbor with Pearly. Owen went away to college and law school, but ended up back in the family practice, doomed to defend people like Pearly who can't afford lawyers, so he has learned to take his fees in trade -- a remodeled bathroom or a properly hung door. And even at that, Naught undoubtedly gets the better end of the deal, since Pearly is, despite his questionable reputation, a very competent carpenter whose personal philosophy, if he has one, is "that things in this world ought to be plumb, level, and square, but seldom are."
Pearly is hired by Martin (a distant cousin) to help restore a large old house in town where Martin and Hannah plan to live and rent the two upper floors for income. The jealously obsessive Sean, hired by the village as a summer cop, lurks about the fringes of their lives and attempts, with increasingly violent acts of vandalism and sabotage, to disrupt their plans.
Every detail and every character fit seamlessly into the rapidly spiraling events that draw the reader full bore into the escalating violence that moves inexorably toward an unexpected and shocking climax Smolens' writing is spare and direct, with that stripped-to-the-bone clarity and precision that his readers have come to expect. "Fire Point" is not just another thriller, or "a novel of suspense", as its jacket proclaims. It is finely crafted, good -- perhaps even great -- literature. Pearly Blankenship and Hannah LeClaire are characters who will stay with you for a long time after closing the covers.
Whitefish Harbor, like the real villages of Paradise, Trout Lake or Grand Marais, is instantly recognizable as one of those small, isolated often soul-deadening communities surrounded by sand, swamps and second-growth scrub pine forests, which survives mostly on the tourist trade during the brief months of summer. This insular small-town setting is key to the novel's events (which take place over a six-month period from April to September), as they delicately and inevitably unfold in the inimitable prose style Smolens has established and perfected in his earlier work. Employment opportunities are few and severely limited. A key character is introduced in the following manner: "Places like Whitefish Harbor send kids like Sean Colby out into the world after high school. They go to college, they enlist in the service."
Sean Colby could easily be listed as the villain of "Fire Point", but that would be oversimplifying an extremely intricate feat of story-telling, because as the plot evolves, you learn a bit about his childhood and are privy to a not very pretty picture of his parents' marriage and their own particular disappointments and failings. You quickly come to the conclusion that there are no clear-cut good guys or bad guys in this tale, only regular people with all the usual complexities who are trying to find their place in a life they didn't necessarily choose.
Hannah LeClaire, a mature 19 year-old, is the girl all the boys and men in town follow longingly with their eyes, but she had given herself, too soon, to Sean Colby the previous year. A fatherless loner herself, Hannah was drawn to Sean's "leader of the pack" aura. But something was "twisted" in Sean, and when Hannah became pregnant, he gave in to the "solution" proposed by his parents, then disappeared into the army. Ten months later, discharged early for not yet clear reasons, Sean shows up back in Whitefish Harbor and begins stalking Hannah and her new boyfriend, 29 year-old Martin Reed, a Chicago man who had spent his childhood summers in the village, his mother's hometown.
Early on in the narrative, Reed would appear to be the obvious hero of the piece, but nothing is ever quite what it appears to be in Smolens' fiction. Likely heroes become victims and unlikely people become heroes.
Joseph "Pearly" Blankenship Jr., 44 years old, part Ojibwa Indian, loner, barfly, and sometime carpenter, is such an unlikely hero. Involved in an inertia-fed listless affair with a local bartender, who is yet another single mom in a sea of failed relationships, Pearly is almost a stereotypical product of his town, except for one thing. He reads. Probably the most prolific borrower from the town library, he knows his Shakespeare, as well as when to use "whom vs. who." An anomaly in a town of non-readers and small-minded failures, Pearly has become the primary "usual suspect" any time a civic prank or petty crime occurs. He is regularly detained, harrassed and humiliated by Frank Colby, Sean's father and a frustrated long-time cop who knows he will never be chief of police. That post is held by Buzz Gagnon, an overweight cartoon of a law enforcement officer who can't stop himself from snacking on whatever is at hand as he questions suspects and is more concerned with maintaining the status quo than with solving crimes. Hounded by Colby, Pearly is regularly defended by Owen Nault III, who, like Frank Colby, grew up in Whitefish Harbor with Pearly. Owen went away to college and law school, but ended up back in the family practice, doomed to defend people like Pearly who can't afford lawyers, so he has learned to take his fees in trade -- a remodeled bathroom or a properly hung door. And even at that, Naught undoubtedly gets the better end of the deal, since Pearly is, despite his questionable reputation, a very competent carpenter whose personal philosophy, if he has one, is "that things in this world ought to be plumb, level, and square, but seldom are."
Pearly is hired by Martin (a distant cousin) to help restore a large old house in town where Martin and Hannah plan to live and rent the two upper floors for income. The jealously obsessive Sean, hired by the village as a summer cop, lurks about the fringes of their lives and attempts, with increasingly violent acts of vandalism and sabotage, to disrupt their plans.
Every detail and every character fit seamlessly into the rapidly spiraling events that draw the reader full bore into the escalating violence that moves inexorably toward an unexpected and shocking climax Smolens' writing is spare and direct, with that stripped-to-the-bone clarity and precision that his readers have come to expect. "Fire Point" is not just another thriller, or "a novel of suspense", as its jacket proclaims. It is finely crafted, good -- perhaps even great -- literature. Pearly Blankenship and Hannah LeClaire are characters who will stay with you for a long time after closing the covers.
August 12, 2020
3,5. Scritto bene, bella storia, ma non mi ha colpito particolarmente.
June 7, 2019
"Margine di fuoco" è stato per me un'enorme delusione. I personaggi sono tutti incoerenti, tanto da non permettere a chi legge di provare empatia (forse, sì salva Pearly). La storia è raccontata in modo frammentato, e questo ha reso difficilissima, per me, la lettura. Mi sono annoiata tantissimo. Il finale mi sembra davvero raffazzonato e talmente inatteso da risultare del tutto fuori luogo. Mi sono sentita presa in giro dai cambiamenti emotivi dei personaggi, che non trovano alcuna spiegazione nel testo. E anche lo stile di questo autore, il suo modo di scrivere, mi portava a distrarmi in continuazione. Mi dispiace, perché speravo in qualcosa di originale. Peccato.
February 14, 2022
I got this book from a neighbor, sounds good..we shall see🤷
2.14.22. Finish this book today it was really a great book it reminded me a lot of the book, where the Crawdads sing.
2.14.22. Finish this book today it was really a great book it reminded me a lot of the book, where the Crawdads sing.
November 24, 2019
La sua religione, se ne aveva una, era che le cose in questo mondo dovrebbero essere a piombo, in pari e a squadro. Aveva quarantaquattro anni e aveva vissuto la sua intera esistenza a Whitefish Harbor, nella Upper Peninsula del Michigan, un paesino su un promontorio collinare che si protende verso il Lago Superiore.
Parto dall'incipit del romanzo, un incipit felice che ci presenta uno dei personaggi che ruoteranno intorno alla storia di Hannah e Martin. Pearly Blankenship è il cugino di Martin e come si evince dal primo capitolo è anche lo spiantato del paese, con sempre tanta birra nello stomaco e i poliziotti alle calcagna. Ma è un personaggio che conquista e a mio parere è proprio questa la forza di John Smolens: personaggi ben delineati, a tutto tondo, trama scorrevole, scenari affascinanti. Certo, in alcuni punti la storia si fa più confusa, vedi il racconto della vita militare di Sean Colby, e il finale (tranquilli non ho intenzione di fare spoiler) ci coglie senza tanti scossoni.
Non un thriller magnifico, come viene decantato in copertina quindi, anzi io proprio non lo definirei un thriller, eppure è un romanzo che mi ha intrattenuta, che mi ha tenuta legata a sé fino alla fine e questo proprio grazie ai suoi personaggi, al modo in cui Smolens ce li presenta e intreccia le loro vite, come tanti cerchi concentrici.Pensate a quelli prodotti da un sasso gettato in un lago, quello stesso Lago Superiore da cui emerge un passato che per molti dei personaggi di Smolens è pesante, opprimente. Basti pensare ad Hannah e alla sua gravidanza interrotta o a Sean Colby e al suo rapporto travagliato con l'integerrimo agente Frank Colby. Del resto ci troviamo nella provincia americana, una provincia remota, silente, dove l'apparenza è tutto, dove la vita inizia e finisce tra il municipio, l'ufficio postale e il diner di turno. Dove gli eventi degni di nota sono semplicemente un luccio gigante abbandonato sul portico del giudice di Whitefish Harbor e l'asta della bandiera rubata davanti al municipio. E cosa dire del "diversivo comico Pearly" e del suo processo presso la contea di Marquette? La resa dei conti tra Pearly Blankenship e il giudice Emmett Anderson è tutta un poema.
Forse Margine di fuoco non sarà carico di suspence come ci è stato presentato, ma ha una grazia e una profondità tutte suee tra sensi di colpa, rimpianti, ossessioni e rinascite, ci presenta uno spaccato realistico della provincia americana più remota a cui fanno da sfondo le bellezze naturali della Upper Peninsula:
E poi c'era un non so che nella qualità della luce, nel modo in cui indugiava sopra il Lago Superiore. Quell'ampia superficie azzurra tratteneva l'ultima luce del giorno ben oltre il tramonto. Si fermò sul limitare del bosco, puntando lo sguardo tra gli alberi, dove l'orizzonte non separava più lago e cielo.
Si rese conto che, in quel momento, l'oscurit era l'unica cosa a disposizione di Martin.
Eppure, Pearly lo invidiava.
Parto dall'incipit del romanzo, un incipit felice che ci presenta uno dei personaggi che ruoteranno intorno alla storia di Hannah e Martin. Pearly Blankenship è il cugino di Martin e come si evince dal primo capitolo è anche lo spiantato del paese, con sempre tanta birra nello stomaco e i poliziotti alle calcagna. Ma è un personaggio che conquista e a mio parere è proprio questa la forza di John Smolens: personaggi ben delineati, a tutto tondo, trama scorrevole, scenari affascinanti. Certo, in alcuni punti la storia si fa più confusa, vedi il racconto della vita militare di Sean Colby, e il finale (tranquilli non ho intenzione di fare spoiler) ci coglie senza tanti scossoni.
Non un thriller magnifico, come viene decantato in copertina quindi, anzi io proprio non lo definirei un thriller, eppure è un romanzo che mi ha intrattenuta, che mi ha tenuta legata a sé fino alla fine e questo proprio grazie ai suoi personaggi, al modo in cui Smolens ce li presenta e intreccia le loro vite, come tanti cerchi concentrici.Pensate a quelli prodotti da un sasso gettato in un lago, quello stesso Lago Superiore da cui emerge un passato che per molti dei personaggi di Smolens è pesante, opprimente. Basti pensare ad Hannah e alla sua gravidanza interrotta o a Sean Colby e al suo rapporto travagliato con l'integerrimo agente Frank Colby. Del resto ci troviamo nella provincia americana, una provincia remota, silente, dove l'apparenza è tutto, dove la vita inizia e finisce tra il municipio, l'ufficio postale e il diner di turno. Dove gli eventi degni di nota sono semplicemente un luccio gigante abbandonato sul portico del giudice di Whitefish Harbor e l'asta della bandiera rubata davanti al municipio. E cosa dire del "diversivo comico Pearly" e del suo processo presso la contea di Marquette? La resa dei conti tra Pearly Blankenship e il giudice Emmett Anderson è tutta un poema.
Forse Margine di fuoco non sarà carico di suspence come ci è stato presentato, ma ha una grazia e una profondità tutte suee tra sensi di colpa, rimpianti, ossessioni e rinascite, ci presenta uno spaccato realistico della provincia americana più remota a cui fanno da sfondo le bellezze naturali della Upper Peninsula:
E poi c'era un non so che nella qualità della luce, nel modo in cui indugiava sopra il Lago Superiore. Quell'ampia superficie azzurra tratteneva l'ultima luce del giorno ben oltre il tramonto. Si fermò sul limitare del bosco, puntando lo sguardo tra gli alberi, dove l'orizzonte non separava più lago e cielo.
Si rese conto che, in quel momento, l'oscurit era l'unica cosa a disposizione di Martin.
Eppure, Pearly lo invidiava.
February 17, 2022
Arc refound in bkshelves Chas pulled. Had read Cold years ago. This one was not bad, better than some TV movies I’ve watched. Predictable but fairly decent popcorn. Story of hi-school romance gone awry, w teenage abortion, immaturity of spoiled guy, partly due to poor parenting. Set in UP MI.
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February 11, 2020
Read whole book in one day! Excellent story, well developed story line and characters.
May 27, 2021
3 1/2 stars
This was a page turner set in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. It is full of incredible twists and turns. It is hard to know who to trust.
This was a page turner set in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. It is full of incredible twists and turns. It is hard to know who to trust.
January 24, 2015
Ive never read more enticing blurbs than the ones written for John Smolens books. He has the best ideas to lure his audience in. In Fire Point, nineteen year old Hannah LeClaire is already notorious in her home town of Whitefish Harbor. She walks along the Lake Superior shoreline often, picking up rocks. The day she notices the door open on a big empty house, she goes in to investigate. Someone else is in there.
This is the bait, the lure of the story. Smolens is expert at this. The story takes off from there. Smolens wastes no time on explaining things or even using a lot of description. The story just happens. Hannah takes finding Martin in the house in stride, in typical yooper fashion. Before long she is living with this man, ten years her senior in the old house as they begin to renovate it.
Without explanation, her old boyfriend, Sean, gets an early discharge from the army and shows up. Something is not right with that boy or is it his father, or his mother? Something is not right in the town and yet it's never talked about, only dealt with as problems arise.
I enjoyed Fire Point even more than Cold. I like the characters and even though at times the suspense makes me set the book down before I can't sleep, it all back out in the next chapter and I go on reading. I hate for it to end. I'll be looking into his other books.
This is the bait, the lure of the story. Smolens is expert at this. The story takes off from there. Smolens wastes no time on explaining things or even using a lot of description. The story just happens. Hannah takes finding Martin in the house in stride, in typical yooper fashion. Before long she is living with this man, ten years her senior in the old house as they begin to renovate it.
Without explanation, her old boyfriend, Sean, gets an early discharge from the army and shows up. Something is not right with that boy or is it his father, or his mother? Something is not right in the town and yet it's never talked about, only dealt with as problems arise.
I enjoyed Fire Point even more than Cold. I like the characters and even though at times the suspense makes me set the book down before I can't sleep, it all back out in the next chapter and I go on reading. I hate for it to end. I'll be looking into his other books.
May 12, 2019
Incuriosito dall'articolo sulla Lettura che lo definiva una "Ballata alla Springsteen", mi sono buttato su margine di fuoco, e devo dire che l'elemento caro al boss c'è, eccome: un'umanità sconfitta, vite dalla quale non si esce se non con un amaro k.o., per quanto si possa lottare, e per quanto si tenti di cambiare la marea. Ma è in questo che sta la redenzione, nel cercare di affrontare le onde con disperazione, pur sapendo di non poterne uscire, fino all'inesorabile presa di coscienza che abbandonarsi ad esse non è comunque una vittoria, e per questo tentare e ritentare è l'unico modo per essere orgogliosi di aver perso. Qui le vite di Martin, Sean, Hannah, Pearly (che non può non rimanere nel cuore), Frank e tutti quanti ruotano attorno alle loro vicende, sono un inno alla lotta, tra chi abbandona prima del gong, chi invece all'ultimo cerca di portare uno e un solo colpo all'avversario, sorridendo nel cadere abbattuto. Davvero toccante, amarissimo ma vero, sincero.
March 7, 2013
I liked the story a lot: the suspense was well-paced, the characters interesting and believable, and the dialogue realistic. However, there were just too many editing errors to overlook. FIRE POINT contained several wrong uses of homophones (e.g. "breaks" instead of "brakes" and "pealed" instead of "peeled") and numerous instances of first-person pronouns appearing abruptly and nonsensically in a book written entirely in the third person.
According to the "about the author" note Mr. Smolens is a professor of English, so I would expect him to be far more particular about editing than he apparently is. I won't buy any of his other books.
According to the "about the author" note Mr. Smolens is a professor of English, so I would expect him to be far more particular about editing than he apparently is. I won't buy any of his other books.
July 12, 2016
The main characters were Hannah and Martin, their friend Perry, and the bad guys were Sean and his father, Frank, a cop. The plot is long and convoluted. Basically girl meets man and feels cared for and respected by him. They become a couple. Hannah had been Sean's girl until she got pregnant and when his parents found out, he was sent to the army and her mom was given a check for an abortion. Hannah was shunned by her classmates and towns people.
It goes on from there and not in a happy way. Even the ending is a bit off center. The plot doesn't have much drive to it and I was not eager to find out the ending, but just to finish the book.
It goes on from there and not in a happy way. Even the ending is a bit off center. The plot doesn't have much drive to it and I was not eager to find out the ending, but just to finish the book.
July 29, 2008
I like his previous book, Cold, better, but he is an excellent stylist with a keen eye for humanity. I especially like the way people can do evil but not be demonized, and characters bare up under hardship without a lot of complaining. If you love Michigan's UP and its people it is a worthwhile read. Smolens mentions gratitude to Pete Dexter, and I think anyone who likes Pete Dexter's novels would love Smolens's.
October 3, 2010
good story. i think i liked this one better than "cold" but both are good. both stories the machinery of the gods descends to wrap things up at the end, but all in all, an entertaining read. this young chick meets this older guy who's remodeling this old house on or near the shore of lake superior. things happen. at times, things get out of hand. the chick's beau returns. i recognized people in it. it comes to life. good story.
January 14, 2009
Wonderful characters, gritty scenes, and a very enjoyable read. Smolen's writing style is spare and compelling (after I got past the first few pages, anyway). There are gaps/unexplained things in the narrative, but there is enough substance there that I wasn't put off. I loved that it was set in the UP. Interesting plot twists.
July 9, 2011
Suspense is not my usual pick so this was a little different for me. I think I was drawn to it because while I may not KNOW the area, at least I have been up there.
But I cared about what was going to happen to these people and thats what keeps a person in a book that wouldn't normally be their style.
But I cared about what was going to happen to these people and thats what keeps a person in a book that wouldn't normally be their style.
January 27, 2011
I would rate this a 4.5 if I could. I loved the characters,they were really well done and not 2 dimensional at all, I hate 2D characters. Lots of plot twists,not as suspensful as the title suggests but a compelling read none the less.I did not want to put it down.Really enjoyed this one.
January 7, 2013
This was a poignant read for me, as I've lived in the region for the past 27 years. The characterizations are spot on, and Smolens has captured the cadence of speech and the nuances of the culture.
June 17, 2015
Loved the regional flavor and references to the u.p. Loved the character development and suspense. He has a gift for storytelling. Did not like the ending. Seemed very unbelievable. I will read another of his novels and hope for a better ending.
August 11, 2007
set in Michigan's U P
June 22, 2012
Good plot. Took awhile to start but when it picked up liked the characters.
April 27, 2013
The story, setting and characters were interesting, and I would have enjoyed more depth, particularly with the characters. So, I felt the book was a little flat, as well as predictable, at times.
January 17, 2014
Entertaining but fairly predictable.
March 7, 2016
A good read
So hard to put down! I can't wait to read more of his other books he has written! You will too!
So hard to put down! I can't wait to read more of his other books he has written! You will too!
July 5, 2019
Bellissimo!! Storia e personaggi bellissimi!! Da mangiarlo in un sol boccone!!
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