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The melting snowball effect.

July 25, 2014 by narfna Leave a Comment

After reading the prologue of this book, I was 100% sure I was going to love it. That is not exactly what ended up happening. Let me tell you what happens in the prologue, as a sort of illustration: The book opens with this kid on the roof. He’s pretty much an outcast, and he’s been chased up there by his schoolmates. He’s wearing a uniform, so this is a private school, and there are statues of Saints decorating the roof, so it’s Catholic. This kid […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: anthony breznican, brutal youth, Fiction, literary fiction, narfna

narfna's CBR6 Review No:64 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: anthony breznican, brutal youth, Fiction, literary fiction, narfna ·
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