Family
Format: kindle
ASIN: B004J4WKWY
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Teen,
Realistic Fiction,
Historical Fiction,
Mystery,
Religion,
Contemporary,
Sociology,
Crime,
Poetry,
Abuse,
Cults
Abused teenage girl runs away from home to San Francisco and ends up with Charles Manson-like "family." Though the ending disappointed me a bit, this is an exceptional novel in verse. Intense, disturbing and quite terrifying.
Full disclosure: ARC copy, received as a Bookmooch tradeThis one never got off the ground for me. I understand what Ms. Ostow was trying to create with the repetition in her free verses, unfortunately it just ended up being a lot of distracting noise. I thought the story would go into the main chara...
This wasn't quite what I thought it would be.I didn't really realize it would be in verse, so that kind of threw me off. Then it would sometimes be in the past, sometimes in the present, which could also be jarring. The verse itself was interesting, just took some getting used to.The story was inter...
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