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Summary: triple witch review
Review: Triple Witch written by Sarah Graves.The main city where all the events happen in is EastPort a little island off the coast of Maine.The time in which this story starts is 1999. The book has 291 pages. There were a lot of characters.Jacobia Tiptree was the most important character.Also in the book was her son Sam,her boyfriend Wade,Kenny Mummford who is the first one to die. Unfortunatley her ex-husband Victor decides to move in EastPort. To summerize this story it is about Jacobia who moved from Manhattan to Eastport to get away from her old life. Her and her best friend Ellie find the body of Kenny Mummford.Hallie Quinn who was a teenager used to live with Kenny and was a herion addict.While they try to uncover who killed Kenny more people die. Finally at the end they find out the evil killer. "I felt a burst of fury at poor,foolish Hallie, so certain that she could take care of herself. She couldn't have been dead,Arnold had told us,more than a few hours ago".Page 107. I felt this was a great beginning to a paragraph she wrote. She uses a good way to describe how she is feeling.The cover of the story is a window and two green shutters with a lader by it. During the book Jacobia ia putting new green shutters on. The title is also the name of a ship where you hear at the beginning ,but all the excitment happens at the end. From one to ten i would rate this book a 7. I would recommend this book to people. It was written very nicley and you feel like you know Jacobia and all her friends. It was written well.
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Summary: Blue-chip all the way . . .
Review: When I read this author's first book, DEAD CAT BOUNCE, not only was I blown away by the lyricism of the writing--simply gorgeous--but also by the marvelous way the author blended so many disparate items together into one extremely satisfying book. It can't be easy to mix together--much less make sense of--a small town on the very east coast of Maine; a mathematical genius who's a female (Jacobia Tiptree--wonderful name!) for goodness' sake, newly divorced; a teen-aged son who, while not rebellious as most teens are, has his own problems to fight--dyslexia, among others; a former husband with whom Jake somehow manages to be on fairly good terms, even though he is a first-class jerk; a new man in her life, who sounds positively dishy; and--an 1823 house, complete with ghost, and in need of renovations. Somehow the author makes it all work splendidly.I was somewhat hesitant, therefore, to open TRIPLE WITCH, because the first book had been so wonderful. First books frequently are especially wonderful, just because they're first books. They can gestate for years, if necessary, whereas second books usually have to make their appearance after just a few months. But, Jake and all the above-mentioned components are still all present, including the former husband who's now decided he'll move to Eastport, too. Triple Witch features an eclectic list of ingredients: a former financial high-flyer who's been barred from the industry, but with an entire room in HIS newly-renovated old house devoted to the very latest computer equipment connected to international financial sources, and with a pasture housing a flock of llamas; a young man, murdered, who's father was also murdered a day later, but leaving behind a barn full of dog-food bags, now containing US money--to the tune of some two million dollars!; an encroaching possible crime-wave in the usually sleepy little village, which has the residents acting as vigilantes, out prowling through the night-darkened streets, but armed only with flashlights. Ellie White and Jacobia Tiptree are one fabulous and formidable pair of females. Together, along with some help from Jake's friend Wade and her son, Sam, plus Ellie's husband George, and the town's low-key chief of police, Bob Arnold, and even a smidgen of assistance from the former husband, Victor, the bad guys are routed, resulting in a mostly happy ending. Sarah Graves is indeed marvelous--I'll never hesitate to read another of her books, and neither should you. (I do have just one teensy-tiny complaint, however. When I was a kid, buckwheat pancakes were fairly easy to come by, and always ranked high on my list of favorite foods. Not so any more, though. Oh, one can find the special flour needed, by why oh, why? wasn't Ellie's recipe included? Bummer. Truly an excellent book otherwise, though!)
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