David Baldacci

Franziska Pigulla

Das Versprechen. 4 Cassetten.

Wish You Well

Andrea Badgley

My mom recommended this book because it takes place in the Appalachian mountains of SW Virginia, where I now live. Baldacci nailed the dialect - he wrote it masterfully, so that you could hear the characters' speech, without the dialect being distracting or tiring. And he captured a way of life on the mountain that most of us will never know. Somehow, though, there wasn't enough depth for me. Or maybe complexity. I can't pinpoint what it was that had my mind wandering at times, that kept me from getting truly engaged. It's worth a shot if you want to disappear into the mountains for a while, and particularly if you are interest in the coal mining issues currently going on in the Appalachians (blowing up the mountains to empty them of their coal and then abandon them, piles of rubble, barren and stripped of life)

Das Versprechen. 4 Cassetten.

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