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Jennifer Miller (2) (1980–)

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Well written and not very enjoyable. My stomach was turned by Lily's victimization, Hazel was an unconvincing evil mastermind. Jonah's character was surprisingly well rounded. As with all New England prep school novels I have read, it made me glad not to have attended a New England prep school.
 
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Je9 | 11 altre recensioni | Aug 10, 2021 |
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Putting my finger on the exact genre of this book is not possible. The one thing I do know, though, is that I didn't really enjoy this story. I thought I had it figured out as a story about a young wife who was beaten by her PTSD-suffering war veteran husband and has fled the marriage with her oft-absent PTSD-suffering war veteran father and his veteran brotherhood of bikers on a cross-country trip, but then the story took a turn towards a grown-up version of the Hunger Games and it completely lost my interest/train of thought/any sort of believability.

When college students Becca and Ben meet, Becca is instantly drawn to his military recruiter status, as her father, whom she would have liked to have had around more as she was growing up is a military vet. Ben likes Becca because she is not one to follow the crowd and her independence is attractive to him. Their relationship is fast-tracked after Ben is called to take a tour in Iraq. Getting married just a few months after meeting, with Ben shipping out shortly after hasn't given their marriage much of a chance. When Ben returns from his tour he is very different. His violent rages scare Becca and when he beats her out of a deep sleep one night she flees to her father's house for sanctuary.

Becca's father, King, however isn't keen to have her around as he isn't used to being a father so he trusts his best friend Reno to help take care of Becca. Reno and King are getting ready to head out on a cross-country motorcycle trip with a number of their veteran buddies and end up taking Becca with them.

Becca finds out that King's desire to head West is so he can take over leadership of an isolated commune where war vets go to live and apparently die. Meanwhile, Ben finds out where Becca is headed and he decides to go after her. Eventually all parties meet up at the commune and ridiculousness begins. The leader of the commune is ready to die and hand down his leadership role to whomever he deems most worthy though a series of deadly trials he puts each challenger through until he is dead and only one challenger remains.

I was completely lost by the commune part of the book. I was barely interested by the lead-up part of the book, but this ending story completely was off-putting to me. I appreciate that the writing in this book isn't untalented or unintelligent so I gave it 3 stars instead of 2, but this story was really just not for me. I won this copy via Library Thing.
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mandersj73 | 4 altre recensioni | Mar 2, 2016 |
This book was well written and engaging, but overall it lacked something for me that I can't put my finger on. It felt a little bit like everything was right on the surface, that people didn't really have interior selves, I guess. No one seemed to really grow or change.
 
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lovelypenny | 11 altre recensioni | Feb 4, 2016 |
I read this for a bookclub and was somewhat disappointed. The character development was weak and the book went off in too many directions. The author came to our bookclub and we did have a very interesting discussion -- two members have spouses who are veterans of the Vietnam and Iraq/Afghanistan conflicts and another member works for the USO. I think I would appreciate reading the author's nonfiction articles about the journey she took back in 2007 more than I did this fictional account of those with whom she rode across the country.… (altro)
 
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Jcambridge | 4 altre recensioni | Dec 2, 2015 |

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