Joan Frances Turner
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- Rechtmäßiger Name
- Turner, Joan Frances
- Geburtstag
- 1970
- Geschlecht
- female
- Nationalität
- USA
- Wohnorte
- Calumet Region, Indiana, USA
- Ausbildung
- Brown University
- Agent
- Michelle Brower (Folio Literary Management)
- Kurzbiographie
- Joan Frances Turner was born in Rhode Island and grew up in the Calumet Region of northwest Indiana. Dust, her first novel, will be published by Ace Books on September 7, 2010. She is currently at work on a sequel, tentatively titled Frail. Joan lives near the Indiana Dunes with her family and a garden full of spring onions and tiger lilies, weather permitting.
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- 4
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- 290
- Beliebtheit
- #80,656
- Bewertung
- 3.5
- Rezensionen
- 18
- ISBNs
- 15
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Joan Frances Turner writes zombies like someone who's also fascinated by them, and wants to understand what makes them who (what?) they are. Jessie is a great protagonist, a zombie who likes her undead life, but who also longs for the family she left behind.
Having said all that, I did have some problems with the book. Chief among them is the fact that it was so darn slow. It's extremely repetitive at times, and there are entire chapters when not much happens. For a zombie novel, it's not an action caper, but more of a slow character study - almost literary at times. I also didn't understand why the author had to conjure up Death as a real character toward the end of the book. That seemed to come out of nowhere and made no sense to me.
Overall, though, I enjoyed the book, and I would read the sequel.… (mehr)