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Title: Innocents by Cathy Coote ISBN: 0-8021-3927-2 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: September, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.7 (10 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: A Memorable Disappointment
Comment: The language of INNOCENTS sails from high, mocking, victorious glee to the depths of self-loathing--not unlike the sixteen-year-old girl who narrates it. It is the voice of this young girl that insinuates into the reader's head, alternately attempting to seduce with her brilliance and disgust with her callous cunning. The story maps out a reverse "Lolita" arrangement, with the beautiful nymphet pulling all the strings and the hapless adult male unwittingly following after her.
This book is not for everybody. The language, in parts, grows overblown and tiresome, and the plot itself offers nothing but an endless cycle of seduction, with no development of characters, no changes. The climax rings hollow, and the ending smells faintly of the end to Fowles' THE COLLECTOR, with just the barest whiff of the cyclic quality of obsession. The seduction scenes are admirable and chilling, but the few actual plot points have an obligatory feel, "thrown in" as it were to advance the story along, with no reason or meaning behind them. In the end one is left with a numbing emptiness--not unlike the narrator herself must feel.
Don't come to this book looking for answers or insights. Ride along and allow yourself to be manipulated by the wily narrator and the very lucid, brilliant author. If Miss Coote has written a second novel, it might be very much worth seeing.
Rating: 3
Summary: Unique
Comment: This book is not one of my favorites. The prose, while very descriptive, is often too flowery, and I feel that draws away from the plot. However...the plotline in this book is great. The book is dark, and unlike most young authors, Coote does not adhere to or fall back on tired cliches and stereotypes. I wanted to read more of this book, if only to see what could possibly come next. I find that to be a good quality. I look forward to seeing more from this author in the future.
Rating: 4
Summary: Dark and Seductive
Comment: The prose of this book is fantastic; and to think that a nineteen year old had the talent to write a book of this quality. I have read this book twice already and still don't want to put it down. The only thing I didn't like about it was the ease in which the narrator crafted herself into exactly what her teacher so desperately wanted. Other than that, I highly reccomend this book for ages 14 and up.
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Title: The Torn Skirt by Rebecca Godfrey ISBN: 0060094850 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 15 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Have You Seen Me? by Laura Denham ISBN: 0786710624 Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub. Date: December, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Downers Grove by Michael Hornburg ISBN: 0802137938 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: 09 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Pure by Rebbecca Ray ISBN: 0802137008 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: July, 2000 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Suicide Blonde by Darcey Steinke ISBN: 0802136648 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: March, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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