Kendall loves her life in small town Cryer¹s Cross, Montana, but she also longs for something more. She knows the chances of going to school in New...
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Aug 09, 2011
Tatiana
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2.5 stars rounded up.
I am fairly certain this is the last Lisa McMann's book I will ever read. Both Gone and Cryer's Cross just don't have the emotional pull of her first 2 novels.
If you read the author's books before, you are familiar with her writing style - 3rd person present tense narration. In theory, it should work wonders for this story, because: 1) this is, supposedly, a mystery and 2) the main character, Kendall, has OCD.
Too bad the mystery is introd More...
I am fairly certain this is the last Lisa McMann's book I will ever read. Both Gone and Cryer's Cross just don't have the emotional pull of her first 2 novels.
If you read the author's books before, you are familiar with her writing style - 3rd person present tense narration. In theory, it should work wonders for this story, because: 1) this is, supposedly, a mystery and 2) the main character, Kendall, has OCD.
Too bad the mystery is introd More...
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Nov 27, 2011
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I've only read one other book by McMann before, but it seems like for me her books are always lacking one very important thing. In Wake, I felt that she had an interesting story and concept, but I didn't care about her characters. In this one, however, I liked the characters but thought the overall plot was dumb. Hopefully the next book she writes she can create characters I care about AND a compelling story.
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Even though I found the plot of this one to be somewhat ridiculous, I couldn More...
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Apr 05, 2011
Vone
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The summary from the front flap of Cryer’s Cross and its eerie excerpt from the back of the book instantly captivated me. I had no choice but to buy the book.
Seventeen-year-old Kendall Fletcher lived all her life on a farm in the tiny town of Cryer’s Cross, MT (population: 212 residents). Nothing ever happens in this quiet, rural town until one day, Tiffany Quinn (a sophomore at the one-room high school) goes missing. After weeks of searching, the Sheriff, along with the majority of More...
Seventeen-year-old Kendall Fletcher lived all her life on a farm in the tiny town of Cryer’s Cross, MT (population: 212 residents). Nothing ever happens in this quiet, rural town until one day, Tiffany Quinn (a sophomore at the one-room high school) goes missing. After weeks of searching, the Sheriff, along with the majority of More...
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Apr 28, 2011
Donna
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YA NEEDS MORE GOOD HORROR LIKE THIS!!!
I'm just saying. Young adult novels as a whole today have a deep void, a precipice if you will, where horror should be. And not the glittering, pussy, it-has-fangs-lets-call-it-horror type of horror either. The good horror. The horror that has you looking over your shoulder, sleeping with a nightlight or just not sleeping at all. I saw this in Cryer's Cross.
Now I have to say, my expectations for a horror novel is pretty high and while Cry More...
I'm just saying. Young adult novels as a whole today have a deep void, a precipice if you will, where horror should be. And not the glittering, pussy, it-has-fangs-lets-call-it-horror type of horror either. The good horror. The horror that has you looking over your shoulder, sleeping with a nightlight or just not sleeping at all. I saw this in Cryer's Cross.
Now I have to say, my expectations for a horror novel is pretty high and while Cry More...
Dec 24, 2011
Pam
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“Haunting, and just plain scary, McMann gives you chills as her story unfolds.”
I am a fan of Lisa McMann’s previous series and I was wondering how Cryer’s Cross would compare. Holy Ass-kicking Batman! Lisa’s story of Cryer’s Cross is creepy, it’s haunting, and most of all it is superbly addicting. The tension builds with every page and only in the last quarter of the book does McMann begin to even give you a hint of what is going down in this sleepy little town. It’s a race to the fini More...
I am a fan of Lisa McMann’s previous series and I was wondering how Cryer’s Cross would compare. Holy Ass-kicking Batman! Lisa’s story of Cryer’s Cross is creepy, it’s haunting, and most of all it is superbly addicting. The tension builds with every page and only in the last quarter of the book does McMann begin to even give you a hint of what is going down in this sleepy little town. It’s a race to the fini More...
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Aug 09, 2011
Beth
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[The UK title is The Missing. Personally, I much prefer the US title. The UK one is unbelievably generic. Neither of them are exactly unique, though.]
My feelings about The Missing/Cryer's Cross fluctuated hugely. Here are my thoughts in chronological order:
THE BEGINNING: Whoooo, I love minimalism. Like Lauren Strasnick in Her and Me and You or [Nothing Like You]! This could be awesome! Okay, I know it's going to go paranormal at some point, because this is Lisa McMann, an More...
My feelings about The Missing/Cryer's Cross fluctuated hugely. Here are my thoughts in chronological order:
THE BEGINNING: Whoooo, I love minimalism. Like Lauren Strasnick in Her and Me and You or [Nothing Like You]! This could be awesome! Okay, I know it's going to go paranormal at some point, because this is Lisa McMann, an More...
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Jan 26, 2011
Jennifer
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Holy wow. Folks, I don’t say this a lot. But WOW! By nature, I am a very fast reader and this is one book I BLEW through. I mean I sat down and read this puppy in like five hours. Or less. I took some breaks.
What started out as a pretty light-hearted story, took a turn for the dark and creepy and I was intrigued every step of the way. Even with the main character, OCD-suffering Kendall and how she copes with her best friend, Nico suddenly vanishing. Then enter stoically quiet Jacián in More...
What started out as a pretty light-hearted story, took a turn for the dark and creepy and I was intrigued every step of the way. Even with the main character, OCD-suffering Kendall and how she copes with her best friend, Nico suddenly vanishing. Then enter stoically quiet Jacián in More...
Jan 27, 2012
Makayla (Books Galore)
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Cryer's Cross was another amazing written book By Lisa MacMann. I could not put it down, with the secrets that were within the book. I had to know what had happened to Nico, and Tiffany after they had mysteryly disappeared without a trace.
The cover i just love it, it's simple but sweet in a way. The other cover how ever kind of goes with the book better, but I still like this one too.
I love the small towns were you know everyone, and you grew up with the More...
Cryer's Cross was another amazing written book By Lisa MacMann. I could not put it down, with the secrets that were within the book. I had to know what had happened to Nico, and Tiffany after they had mysteryly disappeared without a trace.
The cover i just love it, it's simple but sweet in a way. The other cover how ever kind of goes with the book better, but I still like this one too.
I love the small towns were you know everyone, and you grew up with the More...
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Oct 16, 2011
I have only ever read one of Lisa McMann’s books before, and really enjoyed it. That said, and since she has published three more books since the one I read, I expected Cryer’s Cross to blow any expectations I had from my previous ventures into McMann Land—and from the hype surrounding this book—out of the water.
Kendall was a strong and smart main character, but you don’t get to find out much about her character and I found it hard to connect with her. That was my problem with all o More...
Kendall was a strong and smart main character, but you don’t get to find out much about her character and I found it hard to connect with her. That was my problem with all o More...
Dec 04, 2011
Mocha ღ Latte
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Hmm...I liked it. Not quite what I was expecting.
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Feb 17, 2012
Jenni
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Kendall lives in a very, very small town. Her entire high school fits in one classroom. Kendall has been thriving in this small community in spite of her OCD, which she has learned to manage as long as her routine isn't interrupted. Then one of her sophomore classmates disappears. Then a fellow senior disappears. Kendall, who notices everything, sees a new piece of graffiti etched into a desk in the senior section of her classroom. The new graffiti looks like it's been there forever, and i
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Feb 15, 2012
Sarah
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I was pleasantly surprised by this story.
McMann presents a haunting, captivating and eerie tale of voices and strange disappearances. The main character was refreshing and interesting; it isn't often you read about someone with OCD. But the real thriller is the occasional narrative of the disembodied voices that appears between chapters. They don't make much sense until the end of the story when the mystery is unraveled and everything comes full circle, but I found that worked to the More...
McMann presents a haunting, captivating and eerie tale of voices and strange disappearances. The main character was refreshing and interesting; it isn't often you read about someone with OCD. But the real thriller is the occasional narrative of the disembodied voices that appears between chapters. They don't make much sense until the end of the story when the mystery is unraveled and everything comes full circle, but I found that worked to the More...
Feb 04, 2012
Samantha
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Kendall lives in the small town of Cryer's Cross, Montana and dreams of going to Juilliard. She lives a relatively normal life - except for her OCD. Things start to change, however, when a young girl goes missing in their small town and then others start to disappear as well.
I had heard pretty good things about this one but I was so incredibly disappointed. I was not a fan of the writing style at all - and don't get me wrong, I have read plenty of good books written in third person, More...
I had heard pretty good things about this one but I was so incredibly disappointed. I was not a fan of the writing style at all - and don't get me wrong, I have read plenty of good books written in third person, More...
Jan 12, 2012
Bagtree
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The horror elements are, through some kind of witchcraft, simultaneously overwrought and... sort of tacked-on. They had a promising start, no question, but one that needed expanding upon to get actually creepy. The moment it becomes clear that no such expansion is going to occur is the moment it all starts to seem EXTREMELY SILLY.
The prose is competent and the characters believable. Kendall's grief, I think, is handled quite well. Jacián is one of the more convincing attempts at the Ru More...
The prose is competent and the characters believable. Kendall's grief, I think, is handled quite well. Jacián is one of the more convincing attempts at the Ru More...
Dec 27, 2011
Christina (Reading Thru The Night)
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First, I truly love a good ghost story. The problem with ghost stories however is MOST of them aren't that good. It's a real easy downward spiral from being creepy and believable to over the top and b-flickish.*
And I was a bit nervous about this one. But there's more haunting and less spooking so it was fantastic!
Kendall lives in a small town. (I pictured Little House on the Prairie, but not so pious?) Everyone knows everyone else, so when a sixteen year old goes missing t More...
And I was a bit nervous about this one. But there's more haunting and less spooking so it was fantastic!
Kendall lives in a small town. (I pictured Little House on the Prairie, but not so pious?) Everyone knows everyone else, so when a sixteen year old goes missing t More...
Oct 25, 2011
Littlebearries
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Cryer’s Cross
by Lisa McMann
Story Title: 4/5
Plot: 3/5
Characters: 3/5
Ending: 3/5
Synopsis:
(from Goodreads): The community of Cryer’s Cross, Montana (population 212) is distraught when high school freshman Tiffany disappears without a trace. Already off-balance due to her OCD, 16-year-old Kendall is freaked out seeing Tiffany’s empty desk in the one-room school house, but somehow life goes on... until Kendall's boyfriend Nico also disappears, and also w More...
by Lisa McMann
Story Title: 4/5
Plot: 3/5
Characters: 3/5
Ending: 3/5
Synopsis:
(from Goodreads): The community of Cryer’s Cross, Montana (population 212) is distraught when high school freshman Tiffany disappears without a trace. Already off-balance due to her OCD, 16-year-old Kendall is freaked out seeing Tiffany’s empty desk in the one-room school house, but somehow life goes on... until Kendall's boyfriend Nico also disappears, and also w More...
Oct 16, 2011
Ashley
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Cryer's Cross by Lisa McMann is a book I was really looking forward to reading. There was a lot of buzz about it in the blogging world before it came out. It seemed like it was going to be one of those wonderfully creepy books and it had a character dealing with a mental illness. Great, right?
Sadly, no. Not even close. :( It's a book that, in my opinion, failed on two levels. The first, was the story itself. It's supposed to be a creepy story about dangerous and bad happenings in a More...
Sadly, no. Not even close. :( It's a book that, in my opinion, failed on two levels. The first, was the story itself. It's supposed to be a creepy story about dangerous and bad happenings in a More...
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Sep 20, 2011
Mark
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The ghosts of the poor children virtually abandoned and many beaten to death in the confines of one of Montana’s worst reform schools over a hundred years ago, are crying out from the grave to be saved. The teenagers from Cryer’s Cross, a small, one-room school town, are disappearing, two are gone, Tiffany and now Nico, leaving no trace or clue. They simply just vanished.
Kendall, Nico’s lifelong friend is distraught after his disappearance. Her whole life is interrupted, the school’s soccer More...
Kendall, Nico’s lifelong friend is distraught after his disappearance. Her whole life is interrupted, the school’s soccer More...
Sep 17, 2011
Falling for Books (Tia)
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First Line: Everything changes when Tiffany Quinn disappears.
Favorite Quote: Kendall tries, fails to tune them all out. It’s all she can do to breathe. And count. Count breaths: thirty-six. Count stones in the dirt: more than fifty. Count people saying stupid things: all of them.
My thoughts: This book has been on my to be read list for a while. I’m glad that I finally picked it up. I really enjoyed this book. It was definitely a fast paced read. I was immediately draw More...
Favorite Quote: Kendall tries, fails to tune them all out. It’s all she can do to breathe. And count. Count breaths: thirty-six. Count stones in the dirt: more than fifty. Count people saying stupid things: all of them.
My thoughts: This book has been on my to be read list for a while. I’m glad that I finally picked it up. I really enjoyed this book. It was definitely a fast paced read. I was immediately draw More...
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Sep 16, 2011
Crystal (Elegantly Bound Books)
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Lisa McMann is one of the best young adult writers that I've come across since I started blogging two years ago. Her Wake series is amazing and while Cryer's Cross still sucked me in with every page, it has the element of mystery. I'm always really intrigued by stories that have people that go missing, serial killers and things that are a little bit creepy. So Cryer's Cross was definitely a win for me!
It starts off a couple of months after the first person goes missing and the who More...
It starts off a couple of months after the first person goes missing and the who More...
Sep 01, 2011
Brit
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Cryer's Cross is about two teens who go missing in the small town. Kendall who has OCD was best friends with one of the teens who goes missing - Niko. She becomes obssessed with figuring out what really happened. But Jacian (a new teen who recently was forced to move to Cryer's Cross with his parents and sister to help take care of his grandfather's business) starts to make Kendall truly question Niko and hers relationship and she becomes to wonder what truly is love. Kendall eventually begi
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Aug 29, 2011
Lisa
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I don't know if you guys have ever noticed, but most scary books or movies take place in small and out of the way towns (Wax House, Cryer's Cross, I Spit on Your Grave, Straw Dogs, etc)...where no one will or would ever know what REALLY happened.
So yeah...just wanted to point that out.
Cryer's Cross, takes place in a the small town (duh) of, you guessed it Cryer's Cross!! This small town and it's people have just been through a lot, a senior from Kendall's high school we More...
So yeah...just wanted to point that out.
Cryer's Cross, takes place in a the small town (duh) of, you guessed it Cryer's Cross!! This small town and it's people have just been through a lot, a senior from Kendall's high school we More...
Aug 18, 2011
Angie
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Who knew a book involving a haunted school desk could be mildly interesting? Was I aware it involved paranormal furniture? Nope, and if I knew, I don't think I would have picked it up. Surprisingly, I'm still glad I did.
I'm a fan of Lisa McMann's Wake trilogy, so when I found out a release of her's passed me by, I had to read it right away. To give a quick synopsis, Cryer's Cross is about a small rural town that begins to have disappearances involving a couple of teenagers. One of thos More...
I'm a fan of Lisa McMann's Wake trilogy, so when I found out a release of her's passed me by, I had to read it right away. To give a quick synopsis, Cryer's Cross is about a small rural town that begins to have disappearances involving a couple of teenagers. One of thos More...
Aug 08, 2011
Christy
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Just finished up Cryer's Cross last night. This is from the same author of the Fade, Wake, Gone trilogy ( in case you guys didn't know :) )
Anyhow, I loved how the book was written in third person form, it was so interesting to see things from outside the box. I got a bit confused at times about the passage of time, at one point I thought more time had passed, then came to find out it had only been like a month. Also at the end of the book, when the ' boggy man ' is revealed, I kind More...
Anyhow, I loved how the book was written in third person form, it was so interesting to see things from outside the box. I got a bit confused at times about the passage of time, at one point I thought more time had passed, then came to find out it had only been like a month. Also at the end of the book, when the ' boggy man ' is revealed, I kind More...
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Aug 03, 2011
The Bookologist
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McMann’s Cryer’s Cross is hauntingly creepy and scary, but yet, original and refreshing. It’s dark and mysterious with its unique concept; mysterious disappearances happening in a small town.
Constantly, McMann throws mind baffling twists and turns that are totally unexpected. Cryer’s Cross is plot-driven, it was the one that drove the whole story to flow and work. Also, McMann’s writing is so distinctive and dominant writing, that it is easy for readers to feel the emotions of the char More...
Constantly, McMann throws mind baffling twists and turns that are totally unexpected. Cryer’s Cross is plot-driven, it was the one that drove the whole story to flow and work. Also, McMann’s writing is so distinctive and dominant writing, that it is easy for readers to feel the emotions of the char More...
Aug 03, 2011
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Lisa McMann's "Cryer's Cross" will probably strike different readers depending on what the reader's initial impressions of it will be. It's a very quick read, easy to digest in one prolonged sitting (I read the entire book in an evening), and has very nice characterization for the most part. As far as my overall impressions of it go, especially revolving around the unfolding plot, I'll admit I'm underwhelmed after finishing it, though I enjoyed the ride for the most part. If you are
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Aug 02, 2011
Taffy
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Wow.
I wasn't sure I'd like this book, mostly because of the cover. Creepy, right? The image fits right in with the story. While it's being hailed as a horror, most of the book (at least to me) is a suspense until the end.
The book opens with someone or something speaking and continues to haunt the story. When Tiffany Quinn disappears, it changes things in the small town where Kendall lives. A new family with an angry teenage son moves into town so he becomes a suspect.
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I wasn't sure I'd like this book, mostly because of the cover. Creepy, right? The image fits right in with the story. While it's being hailed as a horror, most of the book (at least to me) is a suspense until the end.
The book opens with someone or something speaking and continues to haunt the story. When Tiffany Quinn disappears, it changes things in the small town where Kendall lives. A new family with an angry teenage son moves into town so he becomes a suspect.
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Aug 01, 2011
Laura
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I like long and detailed narratives which are rich in detail and subtlety. As well as that, I’m cheap and I like value for my money! If I can get a huge doorstop of a book or a featherweight paperback for the same price, then I'll probably be drawn to the longer read just for value's sake! Therefore, I usually go for audiobooks which are fairly lengthy.
At the end of last month, however, my darling dearest gave me the complete set of Harry Potter audiobooks, read by Stephen Fry! That i More...
At the end of last month, however, my darling dearest gave me the complete set of Harry Potter audiobooks, read by Stephen Fry! That i More...
Jul 23, 2011
Shauna
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Jul 21, 2011
Kayla
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Have you ever encountered a book cover where you can look at it a million times without really seeing it? Without bothering to decipher the images on front, only seeing the title, maybe the author? That’s how I looked at Cryer’s Cross, I don’t know why, until the very end. Then I realized just how perfect the cover was, creepy and eerily poignant to the story.
I didn’t know what to expect when I started this book. I knew there’d be a mystery to solve, a paranormal aspect to the disapp More...
I didn’t know what to expect when I started this book. I knew there’d be a mystery to solve, a paranormal aspect to the disapp More...
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