Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Following Christopher Creed by Carol Plum-Ucci - ADVISABLE


Plum-Ucci, Carol Following Christopher Creed, 416 p. Houghton Mifflin, 2011.  $17.  Language: R (80 swears, 10 ‘f’), Mature Content: PG-13.  Christopher Creed has been gone for five years, but a body has been found in the woods near his old hometown.  Mike Mavic has been following the story on Torey Adams’ blog since the beginning and now he has been drawn to Steepleton.  Instead of a definitive end to Chris’ story, what he finds is a town in crisis.  There is more than one dead body, but there is more human wreckage – wreckage of heart and soul – strewn all over Steepleton.  

Plum-Ucci’s follow-up is as intriguing as the first, but much darker and disturbing.  This would be a good one for fans of the first to read a couple of years AFTER.  HS – ADVISABLE. Cindy, Library Teacher

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