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Gods of Howl Mountain

Taylor Brown

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Mar 17, 2018 Tasha rated it really liked it

Shelves: netgalley, historical-fiction

3.5 rounded up to 4...so possibly a 4...
My first Taylor Brown and I had a back and forth relationship with it. The story is a good one with lots of really interesting things thrown in but the language, which is very descriptive, every single sentence, takes some getting used to and sometimes it's just too much and a bit distracting. That being said, it does fill you up with location and setting bringing the mountains to almost literal life.

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Mar 25, 2019 ˜”*°•.˜”*°• Sheri •°*”˜.•°*”˜ rated it it was ok

Shelves: fiction, rcc-spring-2019-challenge

The story takes place in post-Korean War time in the middle of the bootlegging mountains of the south. After the war a one-legged veteran, Rory, returns to the mountains of his hometown and lives with his Granny May, a prostitute and folk medicine woman. Granny had raised him because his mother, Bonni, was institutionalized after witnessing her boyfriend being murdered. Bonni tried to fight off the attacker and pulled out one of the attackers eyes.

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