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Boundary: The Last Summer | Andrée A. Michaud
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In the deep woods of the Maine borderlands, the legend of huntsman Pete Landry is still told around cottage campfires to scare children, a tragic story of love, lust, and madness. During the early summer of 1967, inseparable teenage beauties Sissy Morgan and Zaza Mulligan wander among the vacation cottages in the community of Boundary, drinking and smoking and swearing, attracting the attention of boys and men. First one, and then the other, goes missing, and both are eventually found dead in the forest. Have they been the victims of freak accidents? Or is someone hunting the young women of Boundary? And if there is a hunter, who might be next? The Summer of Love quickly becomes the Summer of Fear, and detective Stan Michaud, already haunted by a case he could not solve, is determined to find out what exactly is happening in Boundary before someone else is found dead. A story of deep psychological power and unbearable suspense, Andrée A. Michaud’s award-winning Boundary is an utterly gripping read about a community divided by suspicion and driven together by primal terror.
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Adventures-of-a-French-Reader
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My first big book crush of the year. I just loved this atmospheric novel sets in the summer of 1967 in Boundary/Bondrée, a small and remote summer vacation town at the Canadian/American border. During this summer, two young girls are killed. It's a slow mystery (if you want something fast, action-packed, this book is NOT for you), wonderfully written. I loved it.

BarbaraBB It sounds real good! 3y
Adventures-of-a-French-Reader @BarbaraBB I really did like it. I read it in French, I've seen bad reviews of the book by English-speaking readers though... Some reviewers call it "verbose" for example, blaming perhaps the translation. But I doubt there is anything wrong with the translation. The way of writing in French is just different (that's perhaps why I have difficulty with the mainstream offer of books in the US...) 3y
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Itchyfeetreader
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Gosh am I glad to finish this one. Smarter people than me have described it as lush, atmospheric and intelligent but I struggled. it was not so much of a slow burn as it was glacially slow and the language was incredibly verbose. attached quote is a good, exhausting example of lovely prose going nowhere fast. As I alluded to earlier this may be the translation but regardless not one for me.

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Itchyfeetreader
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Picked this up in paperback (with new title) at the airport this morning. The underlying crime is interesting but the writing is very dense and I‘m struggling a little. Don‘t know if it is the translation or just the writers style

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Penny_LiteraryHoarders
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I have serious book issues. How do I cram all of these books into my brain? 😊 I have so many, yet feel compelled to find more at the library! #bookissues

valeriegeary I feel your pain 7y
Penny_LiteraryHoarders @valeriegeary 🙂🤗 7y
mjdowens I ask myself daily why I keep buying more buy books when I cannot keep track or read what I already own. 7y
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Penny_LiteraryHoarders @mjdowens it's bad - but I guess it's not That Bad! 😠7y
LeeRHarry I went to the library today even though I have a million at home! 7y
Penny_LiteraryHoarders @LeeRHarry it's a real issue! We have them! 😂 7y
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