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CEREALNOVEL's latest book: BEFORE by J. Kilburn, a coming-of-age and crime tale set in New England. Five-star fiction!
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MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW "especially and unreservedly" recommends BEFORE, a Novel for community library General Fiction collections!
Think you know the kids next door? Think again! BEFORE both celebrates and indicts the sweet and sordid in everyday life in a small New England college town. This Crime Fiction and Coming-of-Age mashup by J. Kilburn will leave you howling... while the questions and answers posed by this New Adult novel will have you re-examining the sunny streets and wildflower-filled lanes of your own neighborhood.
BEFORE is a fun and edgy novel that follows the adventures and misadventures of Just Regular Kids as they come of age in a pastoral and peaceful college town. Buckle your seatbelts - all may not be as it seems. Events in a far-away Organized Crime empire lurk in the background as these teenagers take their first steps into adulthood. Adventurous readers will discover that two Sweet Sixteens have a lot more in common with hardened criminals than you - or they - might realize. Surprises are in store for everyone!
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Cumulative Summary of the Reviews So Far:
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Five Stars - 2
Three Stars - 2
"Recommended" - 1
"Gripping" - 1
"Wow! Good!" - 1
"!*$$%*@#%_ AWESOME!!!" - 1
"I'm never talking to you again." - 1
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Crime and Coming-of-Age Fiction
by Vermont writer J. Kilburn
Writer J. Kilburn introduces three teen characters in this book: one of them will soon become a mother, one a father, and one of them will be dead before the arrival of their twenty-sixth birthday. Readers shouldn’t make any early assumptions as to which end will befall whom - Kilburn weaves a tangled web of fate and circumstance that will leave readers shocked and delighted in equal measure. A large and loveable supporting cast fleshes out the lives and adventures of these central characters. Readers will finish the tale hand-in-hand with a community of new Old Friends who will be fondly remembered long after the book is closed.
The tale starts with money - lost and scattered cash that is loose to the winds on a tree-lined rural Vermont road. The money scene ends with a clean segue into the introduction and character development of Bruce Sutton, a young man scouting potential college choices.
Other characters are gradually introduced, and along with them come romance, international intrigue, and an array of moral conflicts. By Chapter Three readers are absorbed in a family and community drama and have likely forgotten all about both that money and the looming fate that awaits one of these endearing characters. There are many inter-woven tales told in this book, but they all coalesce in the final two chapters, where readers once more see the wind-blown money and realize that they have been happily consorting with the maker of all this ill-gotten gain throughout nearly every page of this remarkable and well-crafted book.
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