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by Ron Rash, Peg Herring

JennieBasset rated it

13 years ago

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I didn't know what I was getting into when I started this book. Laurel is a young woman whose life has been tainted by North Carolina superstition and a true bout of horrid luck. Happiness comes for Laurel in the form of a mute man whose life she is able to save. Happiness doesn't stay.I can't come...

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Chris Blocker rated it

13 years ago

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At this very moment, I am supposed to writing in my own novel. Later, when my wife finds out I wrote this review instead, I'll likely be in trouble. It's just I'm in one of those places in the novel and in my writing that every word becomes convoluted. I am literally pulling my hair out over the ...

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A Book and A Review #2 rated it

13 years ago

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I must say that it took a bit for me to get into this book, but once I did, it took off. I loved the rural setting for it and the character development surrounding the setting. The book was set in WWI, so its' setting and time, almost reminded me of the book Moon Over Manifest with the quirkiness of...

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The Drift Of Things rated it

13 years ago

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Readers who prefer atmosphere over action will savor the first 150 pages of The Cove. It took me days to get through that first 150 pages, then I blew through the final 100 pages all in one day. It's quite a contrast in pacing and tone, and it gets surprisingly suspenseful near the end. So have a li...

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willemite rated it

14 years ago

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UPDATED - 4/3/12 - see link at bottomThe Cove, a remote locale in North Carolina, is a cursed place, or so everyone seems to think. The story opens in the 1950s when a man from the TVA comes by, preparing the area for flooding as part of a dam project. That the elders he encounters think burying the...

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