Lyrical, maybe. But "heart-rending," as the cover blurb suggests? Eh, not so much.I mean, the situation is sad. Laurel and Hank are outcasts in their Appalachian community, largely because they have the misfortune of living in The Cove, their family's homestead, a gloomy stretch of land where a larg...
In reviews I do my best not to just give my reactions, but the reasons for my reaction, so someone who might like or doesn't care about the things that bother me might still think despite a low rating that the book might be something worth trying, and despite a high rating might think, well, that do...
This book starts off very slowly. It took me a while to become invested in the characters. Once I did, I flew through the pages. In the prologue, which takes place in 1957, something is found during a final walk-through before the government floods the cove to become a lake, which informs the reade...
The cove is settled in the galèrest of all the galères (my sister and I call galères -the french for galley- the nowhere lands of the world.), and this is a case of get out of the cove before the cove gets you. It's the ass of the world, where Christ lost his hat, the fifth pine, except there are no...
The Cove is a good book. The writing is beautiful, the characters all spark emotions in the reader, and the story itself reminds me of an old heartbreaking mountain ballad. Really, if I could rate on writing alone, this story would deserve far more stars than I can give it. This book is sad. The ...
This is more like 3.75. I liked it, but I felt it was hurtling toward an ending that I knew would be tragic in some way. And I was right. I know they can't all be happy endings, but I liked Laurel so so much that I wanted it to be one... Good read. I liked the history tie-in
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