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AUTHOR Rash, Ron
TITLE: Serena
DATE READ 03/13/2018
RATING 4/B
GENRE/ PUB DATE/PUBLISHER / # OF Fiction/2008/Brilliance Audio/10 discs
SERIES/STAND-ALONE SA
CHARACTERS George & Serena Patterson, newlyweds
TIME/PLACE: 1929 North Carolina Mountains
COMMENTS Newlyweds George & Serena Pemberton move to the North Carolina Mountains from Boston. Serena is a bit of a wild card … in that her background is a bit cloudy, she is a determined, very strong and independent woman. Her family is all gone and someth ...more
TITLE: Serena
DATE READ 03/13/2018
RATING 4/B
GENRE/ PUB DATE/PUBLISHER / # OF Fiction/2008/Brilliance Audio/10 discs
SERIES/STAND-ALONE SA
CHARACTERS George & Serena Patterson, newlyweds
TIME/PLACE: 1929 North Carolina Mountains
COMMENTS Newlyweds George & Serena Pemberton move to the North Carolina Mountains from Boston. Serena is a bit of a wild card … in that her background is a bit cloudy, she is a determined, very strong and independent woman. Her family is all gone and someth ...more
When the story opens, both the reader and the community of Waynesville, North Carolina are introduced to Serena. George Pemberton went to Boston to take care of family business and returns to his timber company in Waynesville, with his captivating but certainly not blushing bride. Also waiting on the train platform are a pregnant 16 year-old girl and her father. When the father approaches George, it is Serena who speaks out that we will settle this incident here and now and hands her husband, hi
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A ruthless couple builds a timber empire in late 1920's North Carolina. But their powerful union is complicated by the existence of an illegitimate son.
Engaging in its violent and visceral narrative, but the characters fall flat.
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Engaging in its violent and visceral narrative, but the characters fall flat.
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I had never heard of this book or author Ron Rash before. Really liked it--the tension built nicely over the span of the novel.
Oct 08, 2008
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