The Fever
by:
Megan Abbott (author)
Megan Abbott,Hardcover, English-language edition,Pub by Little, Brown & Company on 06-17-2014
Megan Abbott,Hardcover, English-language edition,Pub by Little, Brown & Company on 06-17-2014
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780316231053 (0316231053)
ASIN: 316231053
Pages no: 320
Edition language: English
At one point I considered throwing this a la Dorothy Parker. It seemed like it was heading to be way more misogynistic than it eventually turned out to be. It also turned out to be less of a thriller than it first seemed. I suppose if I'm forced to choose, I'd rather a modern woman write an unimpres...
From Goodreads: The panic unleashed by a mysterious contagion threatens the bonds of family and community in a seemingly idyllic suburban community.The Nash family is close-knit. Tom is a popular teacher, father of two teens: Eli, a hockey star and girl magnet, and his sister Deenie, a diligent stud...
Quick review for a progressive read. This book took me about the amount of time I'd thought since I listened to the audio version (read by Caitlin Davies, Kirby Heybourne, and Joe Barrett, all of whom did a nice job with the narration). But something about "The Fever" felt much more sluggish and awk...
Sometimes it felt like parenting amounted to a series of questionable decisions, one after another. -Chapter 4 Also: I'm thinking about the lake. What if u r right. What if it was in the lake. What if it is in us. -Chapter 9 Good book, if you don't go into it thinking there might be something s...
This was a "wow" book - one that played on so many of my fears as a parent. I was totally engrossed in The Fever and finished it in a span of 12 hours. There is tired YA (see the Maze Runner), where the writer panders to audience by cinematizing plot to the extent that he forgets that a novel offers...
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