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Turnskin

Nicole Kimberling

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Mar 17, 2015 Jordan Price added it

I loved this book. I loved this book. I loved this book.

Modern fantasy would be my best guess at classifying it. Coming of age, too. It’s the story of a young playwright from out in the sticks who ventures to the big, scary city after his lover leaves him. But oh my God, it’s so much more.

I’ve read it back to back with another book that felt overlong and overexplained, and it was like getting out of a soupy jacuzzi and diving into a refreshing pool, because Turnskin is one of the leanest books I ...more

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Dec 10, 2013 Abi Walton rated it it was amazing

Shelves: history, a-good-book, lgbt, blind-eye-books

OMG Just finished this book it was incredible can completely understand why it won the Lambda Literacy Award. this book follows a boy called Tom Fletcher who is a small town boy who goes to a city called Riverside, which i imagine to be like New York. His Lover Cloud is an incredibly arrogant man but i kind of wish we had more back ground on the life Cloud lives and maybe the concerquences of his choice.

However overall this book was incredible and I would deffo recommend. it Kimberling is a gre ...more

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