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    <body><![CDATA[This is Kathe Koja's first book, which blew me away. She's a poet of language in metal and night - she never hits you with a pretty image, but she nails it nonetheless. This is basically a book about a wacky hole. But the narrator gets very warped in the process... ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I love Kathe Koja's YA.  What a surprise when my husband interlibrary loaned this book because he'd heard it was a great horror novel.  Quite a range this author has.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book feeling like I ought to really like it, but I never really connected to any of the characters in a way that made me care about them.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Really original story, but just a little <em>too</em> dark, even for me.  Pretty intense at times.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The reads like a speeding train. You can't get off but you know you're headed for disaster.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[one of the strangest and most addicting books i have ever read.  ]]></body>
    
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