Gravel Queen

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Summary: Cute, frothy entertainment.
Review: Aurin and her two friends have a nice comfortable friendship in their teen world, in Greensboro, North Carolina. When new girl Neila arrives, her liveliness and fun, are an instant attraction to Aurin. How Aurin manages to bring Neila into her life, and still keep her friendships, keeps you reading. This is a sweet, touching romance, realistic, with nice touches of humour. Author Benduhn insists this story could have happened for real, and most of it seems credible. The ending is definitely satisfying. A delightful, thoughtful novel.

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Summary: Excellent book
Review: Gravel Queen is a smooth, flawless, entertaining and caring book. One can easily find oneself relating to the situations and characters in Gravel Queen. That is only one thing that makes this a GREAT Debut Book by an outstanding Author who I'm sure will be heard from again and again . There is Love, Kindness, humour and sensitivity and caring with a touch of cynical in parts that has to fill one's spirit. This great talent- Tea -is about to be a beacon to others.

JoeB

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Summary: Excellent Book
Review: This is a very tender caring book which was certainly written by a caring loving Person. It becomes a page turner. It teaches us to care for one another, forgive and share. Refreshing and confident. Wonderfully written. We need more writers like Tea.

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Summary: Cute, frothy entertainment.
Review: This is basically an after-school special in novel form. Well, make that novella form. It's only 150 pages.

The three main characters spend all their time hanging around at the local park, wandering aimlessly through their town, sighing dramatically about how incredibly bored they are. True to life? Sure. Interesting? No.

The protagonist is a bored, sort of passive-agressive girl named Aurin who has a crush on a girl named Neila. (The author apparently has a fondness for weird names.) Her moody, attention-grabbing friend Kenney is jealous of the time she spends with Neila. It's never really explained why. Aurin resents Kenney, but that is never really gone into in depth. NOTHING in this book is gone into in any depth. It's a quick, superficial skim into the pool of teenager-hood.