Monday, May 12, 2014

Charm & Strange by Stephanie Kuehn - PUBLIC ONLY


Kuehn, Stephanie Charm & Strange, 216 pg. Macmillan, 2013. $17.99.  Language: R (68 swears 24 Fs)  Violence: PG; Mature Content: R (sexual abuse). Win is a troubled and confused young man with a violent past, a past he doesn’t talk about. But rumors abound at his boarding school.  Now, someone has been killed in the nearby woods and Win fears that he might be responsible.  He feels like there's something terrible inside him.

This psychological drama kept me on the edge of my seat.  Told in flashbacks, I worried about the past the present and the future.  A well-written, mature debut novel, this Morris Award winner’s content and language is too mature for the school library.

PUBLIC ONLY Lisa Librarian

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