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Vincent Cooke vincentcooke — Faster paced book than Boomsday. Also very funny. Some parts are predictable and a bit contrived, but overall another great social commentary.

Renad Aziz renad77663ffe — By the time you get to the second half of the book, the protagonist seems slightly less psychotic. But during the whole first half there is a lot of sex and violence that just seemed really random, and she was fairly emotionless about all of it. She doesn't like to talk at all really, REALLLY likes to shoot, and always has to be close enough to her river to smell it. All that is fine. But for most of the book she is closed off from other people, even considering her age and the shit that she's been through. She bonds with her dad (kind of?) in the beginning of the book, and a dying old man at the end of the book, and everyone else along the way is just evaluated for possible resources. Combine that with her compulsion to kill animals and butcher them, way more frequently than is actually necessary for food, and the effect is just creepy. A distinctive heroine, but a creepy one - I kept thinking about Gone Girl throughout. I couldn't tell how much the reader is supposed to see her as a free spirit versus a dangerously disconnected person.

Mostafa Moghazy accmoghazy898b — The Near Witch was a remarkable debut written with amazing stride and focus. I have never read a book with as many similes and metaphors as the Near Witch, except maybe The Odyssey, which is not even a book. That is an accomplishment, but can be interpreted as an annoying factor that made it difficult to for me to finish the book. Honestly, I have idea of exactly what I think of The Near Witch. Prior to reading the Near Witch, I was reading plenty more novels filled with action and had a fast-pace. Not so with this read. The Near Witch drags a story of a girl discovering the truth behind an old-wives' tale for almost three hundred pages. For most YA books, that's the minimum, but here, it was a whole heck of a lot. So here I went, reading The Near Witch at as fast of a pace as possible, not really caring about whether I missed some important detail, just ready to drop this book ASAP. Of course there as nothing really wrong with the plot. It was a fine idea; a girl discovering the truth behind The Near Witch and the mysterious stranger that appeared in her village. Tragically, it lacked much depth and moments worth remembering. Recalling the whole romance thing incorporated The Near Witch is painful. In fact, it just sickens me. There was no romance in the whole shebang. Somehow, Lexi and Mr. Stranger end up together and you, the reader, is puzzled. Backtracking, one realizes that they just fell in love and you have NO IDEA when. The reason? There was no romantic build-up. It magically appeared, like the magic incorporated in this novel. Now, if there was character who was supposed to be a strong heroine, but just sucked at her job, it's Lexi. One can see the forceful push that the author gives to make her seem strong and extremely determined to solve this mystery of the disappearing child. Too bad, Lexi was as unconvincing as a flat character can get. I would replace her with a talking rock and no one would ever notice, I bet. Don't even get me started on Cole. He could have left the village when he knows he is suspected of the taking of the children, realistically. But no, he decides to stay in the village and get almost arrested at least 3 times throughout the whole novel. Why, that's beyond me. I could rattle on and on about what irritated me when reading The Near Witch; the flat characters, the mystery, the backside of the cover (which is a boring wheat field. I know, that shocked me as well), etc. Still, the writing in The Near Witch is godly! Seriously, I have never read a novel as well-written as this one in a long time. In that regard, The Near Witch deserves credit. Overall, The Near Witch was a major disappointment. The writing as flawless, as mentioned before. Sadly, everything else was as flat as a pancake.

Danilo Ullon _anilo_llon — An entertaining literary thriller set before and during WW II. Not as good as to other excellent books by Boyd : The Blue Afternoon and Brazzaville Beach.