Caring Is Creepy
by David Zimmerman
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46%
Critic Reviews: 8
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68%
Reader Ratings: 7
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Synopsis
Fifteen-year-old Lynn Marie Sugrue is doing her best to make it through a difficult summer. Her mother works long hours as a nurse, and Lynn suspects that her mother's pill-popping boyfriend has enlisted her in his petty criminal enterprises. Lynn finds refuge in online flirtations, eventually meeting up with a troubled young soldier, Logan Loy, and inviting him home. When he's forced to stay over in a storage space accessible through her closet, and the Army... more
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- All Critics: 8
- Positive: 4
- Negative: 4
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BC Books | 2 Apr 2012
After the cohesive and effortlessly seamless narrative of the bulk of the book. . . there’s a rushed quality in the concluding pages that smacks of hasty afterthoughts and a disjointed denouement.
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Kirkus Reviews | 1 May 2012
. . .this coming-of-age story is not for everyone.
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Bibliosaurustext | 24 Apr 2012
Nobody is innocent in its pages, and some will not be able to get through reading it.
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Ames Tribune | 7 Apr 2012
. . .the short time you spend in Lynn’s head is unsettling, illuminating and not to be missed.
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Examiner | 12 Apr 2012
This story is sweet, funny, sad, infuriating, and all too real.
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Publishers Weekly | 27 Feb 2012
. . .the ending is resolved too easily and the reasons for Lynn’s ill-treatment of Logan are unconvincing.
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RT Book Reviews
The clean, sharp prose and steadily building tension will keep readers up long into the night.
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Genre Go Round Reviews | 6 Mar 2012
This is an exciting rural Georgia thriller. . .
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