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Summary: Amazing Book A Must Read A+!!!
Review: This book was intriguing from start to end. It keep throwing loops that were extremely entertaining. Like many have said I just could not put this book down. This is by far one of the most compelling thrillers I have ever read. It's my first Stephen Dobyns books and I can't wait to read more of his masterpieces. This book is so good I bought it on hardcover at full price to read later. The character development is fabulous. You felt like they are real people and that you could run into Mr. Hawthorne, the new headmaster of a sinking school on the bridge of closing. Its one of those books that keeps you hanging and wanting more. I suggest anyone who likes good murder thrillers to get this book immediately.
Rating:
Summary: Amazing Book A Must Read A+!!!
Review: This book was intriguing from start to end. It keep throwing loops that were extremely entertaining. Like many have said I just could not put this book down. This is by far one of the most compelling thrillers I have ever read. It's my first Stephen Dobyns books and I can't wait to read more of his masterpieces. This book is so good I bought it on hardcover at full price to read later. The character development is fabulous. You felt like they are real people and that you could run into Mr. Hawthorne, the new headmaster of a sinking school on the bridge of closing. Its one of those books that keeps you hanging and wanting more. I suggest anyone who likes good murder thrillers to get this book immediately.
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Summary: A Diabolical Faculty and Staff
Review: This is the first book by Stephen Dobyns I have read. I found it truly remarkable and found it hard to put down. Boy In the Water is a taut psychological thriller that kept me wanting to read just one more chapter every time I needed to put it aside. Set at a formerly tony elite prep school in New Hampshire, the school has become a kind of expensive way station for affluent kids who have been in trouble, abused, emotionally abandoned and just about every other kind of trauma that many adolescents have experienced by the time they reach their teens. A nationally prominent psychologist is brought in as the Headmaster after the school had almost hit rock bottom. He faces a run down institution with almost no financial resources to attend to it1s care. The faculty are a complete cast of characters who have designed their lives on campus around their own interests and needs and with little regard for their charges. Psychologist cum Headmaster, Jim Hawthorn is himself recovering from a profound tragedy in his own life and sets about pouring every ounce of attention into bringing about change at the school. His first priority is the kids. He soon find that this view is much at odds with the faculty'd way of operating and the games begin. Layer upon layer of passive-aggressiveness and actual criminal acts have been occurring at the school over the years. This becomes compounded by various new elements of pure evil plotting to be certain Hawthorne does not manage to keep the school open. Throughout the story, as a reader, I kept rooting for the kids and the new headmaster. I was afraid he was going to completely lose it several times, yet he perseveres at almost insurmountable odds. Though the book concludes by allowing the Headmaster to peel back layer upon layer of the problems at hand, we can only sense that at the end, there is much promise for the school and that Hawthorne will indeed make this institution into a first class school that indeed meets the needs of its students. A compelling read, well written and simply completely engaging. I look forward to reading Dobyns other thrillers and can't wait for more!
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