paulabellman's reviews
668 reviews

I wasn't sure about this book when I first started reading it but then the story began to unfold and I was sucked into the opioid world of Appalachia.

Thankfully the author leaves us hopeful to the fate of Demon Copperhead.

I started off hating this book. It felt like a day to day laundry list of "my life in Vietnam "  Somewhere around 40% the story took off.

As a person born in 68 the war and the vets coming home was not in my life. I was just a baby. But  I def remember Tie a Yellow Ribbon and seeing the ribbons tied every where.

I'm about to do a deep dive on the war protests, march on the capital, vets going in the republican convention,  etc. 

This could have been a short story if the author hadn' t kept repeating herself. 

Pretty enjoyable read. I like her character development in this story. 

All you see on Booktok is raves for this author.

Unpopular opinion,  this book was very Harry Potterish.. but not as good as HP.

I doubt I'll continue with any more in this series.

My favorite thing about apocalyptic fiction is the early days and the fall of society. Sadly most novels show a bit of the fall but then jump straight to "repopulate the world'.

This books was the best. It was The Event and the Immediate After the Event. I think the book takes place in a 5 month window.

Fantastically written and very enjoyable. How is this not in bookstgrams TBR piles?  They need to put away the Throne of Glass and pick up Aurora.

I forgot I don't really like books w/the same characters.   I read a "Frankie Elkin" novel last summer. While enjoyable, this book was basically the same as the 1 I previously read.

I love horror with religious themes. This story satisfies all of those!

I listened to this on audiobook. Storygraph did not have the isbn in their library. 

This entire story I was pissed  off.   We don't know anything about the dad except what narrator tells us. Not much back story except for how it directly relates to narrator. 

Good story but I doubt it made a good movie. 

This story reminded me of Stephen King type of novels. Pretty fast read.