The Kingdom of Childhood
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781459213838 (1459213831)
Publish date: October 4th 2011
Publisher: Mira
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
Category:
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
Adult,
Drama,
Family,
Contemporary,
Womens Fiction,
Chick Lit,
Mental Health,
Mental Illness
It left me feeling...IDK. I couldn't quit reading it cause it was great storytelling even though I knew it wasn't going to end good. I don't know, everything in it was foreign to me. I couldn't put it down, and now I'm just sitting here zoned out like a zombie.
If this book did not have an interesting topic (adult woman seducing a teenage boy) it would have gotten only 1 star. I think Coleman's writing was trite, her foreshadowing clunky and obvious, and her lack of consistency in characters downright annoying.Most of my notes from the first third of this...
Originally published at my blog Chasing Empty PavementsPeople are abuzz about Fifty Shades of Grey when Rebecca Coleman's novel is quite possibly even steamier and riskier. This novel tackles a subject that is both intriguing, mystifying and totally mind boggling to me. It's quite a taboo subject fo...
Judy McFarland had a difficult childhood and her perceptions of appropriate relations has been skewed a bit by the past. She initiates an affair with a sixteen year old Zach, who is the same age as her own son, Scott. The story is told by flashbacks of her childhood, her point of view and that of ...
The synopsis of The Kingdom of Childhood gives an excellent summary of it’s controversial and disturbing storyline. The narrative is meticulously crafted in both the first person, through the eyes of Judy McFarland, and third person POV, which flows extremely well from chapter to chapter. Ms. Colman...
13 years ago
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