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    The Summer That Melted Everything

    Written by Tiffany McDaniel

    Narrated by Roger Davis

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    When local prosecutor Autopsy Bliss publishes an invitation to the devil to come to the heatwave-scorched town of Breathed, Ohio, nobody expects that he will turn up, especially as a tattered thirteen-year-old boy. Fielding, the son of Autopsy, brings the boy home, and he is welcomed into the family. The Blisses believe the boy, who calls himself Sal, is a runaway. Then, as a series of strange incidents implicate Sal – the townsfolk begin to believe that Sal is exactly who he claims to be…
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherW. F. Howes Ltd
    Release dateAug 11, 2016
    ISBN9781510045620
    Author

    Tiffany McDaniel

    Tiffany McDaniel is a novelist, poet, and visual artist born and raised in Ohio. She is the author of The Summer That Melted Everything and the forthcoming novel Betty.

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    • 5/5
      it takes some getting used to the narrator's voice but the story is so worth it! beautifully written and so heartwrenching.
    • 2/5
      So glad this book is finally over! I had the hardest time finishing it, it took me months to complete it. I started with the audio version and continued it with the e-book as the husky, old mannish, voice is way over the lines when you got to hear it for more than 13 hours! The written version was a bit better to swallow but this was one of the books I liked the least in the past years. I like, usually, Magic Realism but it has to flow, to make you feel light, it has to be written well. This book is just too much and therefore it became indigestible to me. Too many metaphors, too many words to describe something simple that would/could have been beautiful, too many characters, to many stories, too much and too many of everything to the point I got deeply irritated. It was like one of these cakes with too much food coloring and way too much sugar, made to impress; you may want a small bite but you would indulge on a cake that takes 13 hours to be eaten. I also had an underlining sense of being offended, I guess by the racism in it, covered up somehow by another layer of sugar, by big metaphors and wordy words as well as by a lack of sincerity, probably because it was so pumped up. I did not enjoy reading this past the few initial chapters but I wanted to finish it, also to make sense of the so many high reviews.
      In my opinion it could have been more direct and credible if it was much shorter and more coincise as a writing style. It reads as a very long dissertation written by a student to impress the professor and the crowd, and being a professor I do come across papers like this one, but not so long, not so loaded of sugar.
      I usually write very positive reviews but this is not the case, they are plenty of positive reviews there, if you are confused by them and want to see if someone else had a different experience, here is mine. I cannot give it more than 2 stars, and I got to 2 only because I switched to the e-book.