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Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Teaser Tuesday #69

 Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
 
• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
 BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!
 
Serena
 
Summary:
 
The year is 1929, and newlyweds George and Serena Pemberton travel from Boston to the North Carolina mountains where they plan to create a timber empire. Although George has already lived in the camp long enough to father an illegitimate child, Serena is new to the mountains—but she soon shows herself to be the equal of any man, overseeing crews, hunting rattle-snakes, even saving her husband's life in the wilderness. Together this lord and lady of the woodlands ruthlessly kill or vanquish all who fall out of favor. Yet when Serena learns that she will never bear a child, she sets out to murder the son George fathered without her. Mother and child begin a struggle for their lives, and when Serena suspects George is protecting his illegitimate family, the Pembertons' intense, passionate marriage starts to unravel as the story moves toward its shocking reckoning.

Rash's masterful balance of violence and beauty yields a riveting novel that, at its core, tells of love both honored and betrayed.
Summary & Cover taken from Goodreads.com
Length: 371 pages (Hardcover)
Publication Date: October 7th 2008 by Ecco (first published August 1st 2008
 
Pg. 246
 
"They ever find out who his people was?" Stewart asked. "That boy, I mean."
"No," Henry said. "Jumped off one of them boxcars coming through, so there ain't no telling. Wasn't nothing in his billfold but a picture. An older woman, probably his mama."
"Nothing writ on the back of it?" Stewart asked.
Henryson shook his head.

6 comments:

  1. Such a sad moment. Sounds like a good read though.

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    1. It started off as one, but ended up not being a book for me. I gave it 1 star :(

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  2. So sad it went from being good to then become a complete car wreck

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  3. It sucks when a book is promising and then it disappoints.

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