brangwinn

"Do not approach this call Smith book like you do others. This isn’t the sunshiny optimistic books we’re used to from him. Read with an open mind. He’s created short stories based on newspaper photos. Readers will find themselves making personal co..." Permalink

"This is a coming-of-age story like no other and it does not make my want to send my granddaughter to a private boarding school. The girls of St. John the Divine are cruel to one another. They are cruel elitists. Told by a graduate of the school, J..." Permalink

"While I was able to follow the plot and the history of the unsettled alliance between the Catholics and the Huguenots, readers will probably be more fully immersed in the story and the characters if the first book THE BURNING CHAMBERS is read befo..." Permalink