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Michele Dominguez Greene

Auteur van Keep Sweet

2 Werken 167 Leden 8 Besprekingen

Werken van Michele Dominguez Greene

Keep Sweet (2010) 109 exemplaren

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female
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USA
Geboorteplaats
Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

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So similar to Carol Lynch Williams' The Chosen One. However I honestly wouldn't even compare the two novels... Keep Sweet is much too short. No character development, no resolution. If you want to read about fundamentalist Mormons, this isn't the book to read. There are some really good memoirs and novels out there and Keep Sweet definitely isn't one of them.
 
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bookishblond | 6 andere besprekingen | Oct 24, 2018 |
This is a decent read, though at this point it does seem to feel as though all of these books with the same general plot all tell the same story with different character names. Granted, for good reason, but they really do all progress in essentially the same way, which also serves to make them fairly predictable. And, this one is no exception. Still worth the read though, if the subject matter sounds interesting to you.
 
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TiffanyAK | 6 andere besprekingen | Nov 14, 2017 |
This was a really good book. I couldn't put it down.
It did make me angry though. I know it's fictional, but its based on real events and real beliefs. I just... I just can't agree with polygamy. In my mind, that doesn't work.

I learned a lot of this book. Some I knew and some I didn't. I just can't believe that eleven year old girls are married off to men in their 50's. That woman are expect to give birth to a child every year they are married. Just blows my mind!

Gah!
 
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Shahnareads | 6 andere besprekingen | Jun 21, 2017 |
This short, harrowing young adult novel tells the story of Alva Jane, a fourteen-year-old girl living in a Fundamentalist Mormon community. The story is familiar to anyone who's previously read on the subject, and while the pages turn quickly, as you worry for Alva's safety and sanity, the overall experience leaves something to be desired. Alva's voice is inconsistent; sometimes she seems to know nothing about the "Gentile" outside world, at other times she explains her religion and community as if from an outsider's perspective. There's a lot of exposition, and a lot of clunky dialogue. And although this book is marketed as young adult, there's a brutal, graphic rape scene of Alva by a much older man that would make me hesitate recommending this to all but the most mature teenagers. I can only recommend this if you're really interested in the FLDS and want to read whatever you can on the subject. For the casual reader, I'd say skip it. Two and a half stars.… (meer)
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