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I don't know how much this would have touched me had I not been raised in a town similar to Forrestville (LITERALLY- I come from a town that has the exact same population and has a Nathan Bedford Forrest State Park within the county. So, needless to say, Dill, Travis, Lydia and I had lots in common with our upbringings.)
Let me point out just a slight criticism before I say anything else. If you are wanting/thinking that this particular book is gonna be actio ...more
I don't know how much this would have touched me had I not been raised in a town similar to Forrestville (LITERALLY- I come from a town that has the exact same population and has a Nathan Bedford Forrest State Park within the county. So, needless to say, Dill, Travis, Lydia and I had lots in common with our upbringings.)
Let me point out just a slight criticism before I say anything else. If you are wanting/thinking that this particular book is gonna be actio ...more
I stumbled across this by chance. The Serpent King is a realistic fiction story that is in the vein of John Green, Rainbow Rowell, and Matthew Quick. It tells the story of three high school seniors in Forrestville, Tennessee. Lydia has good parents, great fashion sense, and connects with the people of the world easily (just not the narrow-minded ones in her community necessarily). Travis dresses all in black and loves fantasy novels; his dad is an alcoholic who has crashed since his brother's de
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Mar 14, 2016
Tuğçe Gökırmak
marked it as to-read
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Brittany
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Kelly
marked it as waiting-on-my-shelf
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Feb 26, 2017
Dee
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it was amazing
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