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Ladataan... The Kingdoms of SavannahTekijä: George Dawes Green
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Kirjaudu LibraryThingiin nähdäksesi, pidätkö tästä kirjasta vai et. Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. Wow! This is an excellent book by a fantastic author. This needs to be up front because this is a tough book to review. It is kind of a murder mystery, a bit of a history lesson, an analysis of old money southern families and their many eccentricities, told at the pace most people do things in the south. There will be times where you may ask who is this person or what are they talking about. Be patient and you will find out. I loved this book. I love how the author sums up the book: A strange chimera, part history, part memory and part dream. If you like hidden history with a tinge of gossip, this is the Savannah book for you. A death of a "nobody" reveals the hidden power of the city and what they will do to maintain that position. Not your typical tourist fare. Interesting premise, but it takes a while to get invested. This gothic tale definitely gives off The Garden of Good and Evil vibes but has more mystery and history thrown in. When a homeless man is found burned up in a sleazebag landlord's rundown holding - everyone is convinced that the landlord was just out to get the insurance money and knew but didn't care about the squatter. Jaq, a young socialite with old money family - happened to be good friends with that squatter. Jaq often worked as a bartender at Bo Peeps and she is enraged at his death. She is furious when her grandmother decides to take on the case - after the sleezy landlord reached out to their family and hired them to "solve the crime" - the only crime, Jaq thinks, it's believing that scumbag. But some things don't add up - while he still may be guilty there are other things that need looking into - things that old money Savannah wants to stay buried. Very interesting and filled with neat characters - just took to long for me to get invested in the story. I've been to Savannah numerous times, and my son and his wife lived there for a number of years, plus I've taken student groups there as an 8th grade Georgia History teacher. The tone of the city as expressed in this book is about right; it is a humid, sultry, Southern town covered in Spanish moss and old beautiful homes. This novel involves some murders and some land speculation on a site that may be historic. The plot was interesting enough, but the awkward inclusion of political correctness made the reading a bit tedious. I also got the impression the author was trying to write in the same manner as Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, a far superior book. Overall an ok read but one I won't try again. ei arvosteluja | lisää arvostelu
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"Savannah may appear to be "some town out of a fable," with its vine flowers, turreted mansions, and ghost tours that romanticize the city's history. But look deeper and you'll uncover secrets, past and present, that tell a more sinister tale. It's the story at the heart of George Dawes Green's chilling new novel, The Kingdoms of Savannah. It begins quietly on a balmy Southern night as some locals gather at Bo Peep's, one of the town's favorite watering holes. Within an hour, however, a man will be murdered and his companion will be "disappeared." An unlikely detective, Morgana Musgrove, doyenne of Savannah society, is called upon to unravel the mystery of these crimes. Morgana is an imperious, demanding, and conniving woman, whose four grown children are weary of her schemes. But one by one she inveigles them into helping with her investigation, and soon the family uncovers some terrifying truths--truths that will rock Savannah's power structure to its core. Moving from the homeless encampments that ring the city to the stately homes of Savannah's elite, Green's novel brilliantly depicts the underbelly of a city with a dark history and the strangely mesmerizing dysfunction of a complex family"-- Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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I mean, it seemed like a long book to me of the same information and things being said, and come to find out, it only had 5 chapters. Those were 5 very long chapters and I could not click or connect to this one. Plus, the language in this book was not my thing. I dislike books with an overabundance of profanity and foul language, and this had a lot. I don't remember the last time I read/tried to read a book that had so much profanity like every few words. I mean, I can understand some profanity once in a while and I prefer, or rather can tolerate, maybe a little, but this was too much.
This was supposed to be a type of Southern mystery in Georgia about a dysfunctional family that gets together to solve a murder and a disappearance with buried secrets that have to be uncovered and such. I know other readers have liked this one, so it might be something you'd like, but it was a big miss for me.
Thanks to Celadon Books and NetGalley for letting me read and review this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own. ( )