Three stars is about as high as one goes for contemporary fiction--we're not running a review service here, so late and early we're forced into choosing between the best of everything and the best of what's right now: those two bodies may or may not overlap, but probably do not. Anyway, I've just...
A good sequel to a great first book, The Blue Star continues the story of Jim in rural N Carolina. The writing remains excellent though I was to as moved as I was in Jim The Boy.In the first novel, it seems to me that Earley began with a sentiment and feeling that he wished to elicit in the rea...