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Running Scared | Lisa Jackson

One sentence: Awesome storyline, but the writing could use some work. Three thoughts: I wish there were a genre for “fucked up fiction” because I’m learning that that’s my favorite. This book had it all: incest, bribery, murder, hitmen! It was often hard for me to enjoy what I was ready because the author’s writing was so awkward. Rating Characters: 5/5. I think the characters were all incredibly realistic, and the author did a good job of demonstrating their inner turmoil through their  ...

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My Brilliant Friend

“My father held tight to my hand as if he were afraid that I would slip away. In fact I had the wish to leave him, run, move, cross the street, be struck by the brilliant scales of the sea. At that tremendous moment, full of light and sound, I pretended I was alone in the newness of the city, new myself with all life ahead, exposed to the mutable fury of things but surely triumphant: I, I and Lila, we two with that capacity that together–only together–we had to seize the mass of  ...

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