Citrus County
by:
John Brandon (author)
There shouldn’t be a Citrus County. Teenage romance should be difficult, but not this difficult. Boys like Toby should cause trouble but not this much. The moon should glow gently over children safe in their beds. Uncles in their rockers should be kind. Teachers should guide and inspire. Manatees...
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There shouldn’t be a Citrus County. Teenage romance should be difficult, but not this difficult. Boys like Toby should cause trouble but not this much. The moon should glow gently over children safe in their beds. Uncles in their rockers should be kind. Teachers should guide and inspire. Manatees should laze and palm trees sway and snakes keep to their shady spots under the azalea thickets. The air shouldn’t smell like a swamp. The stars should twinkle. Shelby should be her own hero, the first hero of Citrus County. She should rescue her sister from underground, rescue Toby from his life. Her destiny should be a hero’s destiny.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781934781531 (1934781533)
ASIN: 1934781533
Publish date: 2010-07-06
Publisher: McSweeney's
Pages no: 224
Edition language: English
There are a small clutch of writers* whose prose and plotting is refractory: you slide into a sentence (or the story) with a false sense of security, subject and verb doing what subjects and verbs do, but then suddenly you're upside-down, 30 degrees shy of where you'd expected to end up, split into ...
I'd like to give this a 2.5. It was better than "OK," but I can't say that I "liked" it. In fact, the more I think about it, the less I like it.There's no way to talk about what's really wrong with this book without spoilers. The best I can do is to say that Brandon's efforts to make us accept and s...
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