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A review by tommooney
The Summer that Melted Everything by Tiffany McDaniel
3.0
THE SUMMER THAT MELTED EVERYTHING by Tiffany McDaniel.
Hard to know how to sum this one up. I guess it is as an excellent story told by a poor storyteller.
A small town lawyer sends a letter to the local paper inviting the devil to town. Days later a 13 year old black kid turns up in ragged overalls spouting biblical language and claiming to be the devil. This onsets some kind of mass hysteria in town, people going crazy with the heat and fear.
The main problem I have with the book is the prose. McDaniel is one of those writers who takes three paragraphs to write one sentence. You could hack away 200 adverbs and the story wouldn't suffer at all. Whether that's poor editing or creative-writing-class syndrome I'm not sure.
I don't want to sound too negative because it is a book worth reading. But only just.
Hard to know how to sum this one up. I guess it is as an excellent story told by a poor storyteller.
A small town lawyer sends a letter to the local paper inviting the devil to town. Days later a 13 year old black kid turns up in ragged overalls spouting biblical language and claiming to be the devil. This onsets some kind of mass hysteria in town, people going crazy with the heat and fear.
The main problem I have with the book is the prose. McDaniel is one of those writers who takes three paragraphs to write one sentence. You could hack away 200 adverbs and the story wouldn't suffer at all. Whether that's poor editing or creative-writing-class syndrome I'm not sure.
I don't want to sound too negative because it is a book worth reading. But only just.