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I read this book in less than 5 hours which must give you a clue how fast paced & fantastic of a read it is! So many emotions, thoughts, characters, ideas all rolled up into one fascinating book! Loved it!
I read this book in less than 5 hours which must give you a clue how fast paced & fantastic of a read it is! So many emotions, thoughts, characters, ideas all rolled up into one fascinating book! Loved it!
This book takes place in a small Midwest town called Pine Valley. Everything I know about the Midwest I learned from Fargo (the movie AND the TV series!), so this book helped expand my knowledge (though expand doesn't quite cover it: I still imagine it as very boring, very desolate, which leads people to kill each other). The book did a great job at pacing. Normally alternate POV chapters drive me nuts but this one held it together and moved the story forward (each had their unique voice too, wh
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What starts out as the routine tale of a popular high school girl running away from small-town Minnesota to be an actress in New York suddenly ups its game when the girl turns up brutally murdered in a nearby barn. Layers of plotting and character facades peel away as a local sheriff investigates the murder and the novel retraces the lives and points of view of three main characters heading to a collision of lives as it considers whether we can really know someone, and what is love and what are
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Say goodbye to sleep and productivity because once you pick this book up, you will not want to put it down. Best loss of sleep I've ever had. Thank you, Mindy Mejia for a job well done! Your descriptions, detail, and depth kept me interested and my heart racing for each character's account of the days that lead up to and followed Hattie's death.
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Ms Mindy Mejia: I should not have put off reading your book as long as I did, my apologies. Sometimes it seems like I wait until the right moment in time when I will most benefit from reading a book; this is one of them. Your characters and settings are beautiful. I am not one to write flowery reviews so I won't. I loved this book, thank you.
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Mar 06, 2017
Jerome SC
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it was amazing
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