Citrus County

i blink and suddenly i have read two of the buzz books of the summer! this one i have mike to thank for - i would have just bought it (like i did the author's first book) with good intentions, and it would have sat around until lord knows when, but his review made me read the first three pages right......more

The good kind of contradiction: I would have gladly read an additional 500 pages about Toby and Shelby, the troubled co-protagonists of Citrus County, yet I recognize that John Brandon's concision -- the book clocking in at just over 200 pages -- was the right choice for the story. This is a great no......more

117. That's the page where I am going to stop and put this book to rest. It's a painful mental burden to stop a book midway, but I'm so slumped by this. 2. That's the number of stars I'm applying. I'd give it half that, but it gets an extra since I, admittedly, didn't read to the last page. (As if m......more

Oh. God. So. Good. I love love John Brandon anyway, back from the painfully spectacular Arkansas, and this one gives you that same sinking feeling in your stomach once you get into it, once you know that there is just no way this will get better or go well. Toby and Shelby, the main characters in th......more

With John Brandon, get ready to spend time with criminals. But get ready too, to strip away everything that defines them as criminals, to write in everything that makes them whole, interesting, broken, fun, doomed, ordinary, earnest, cruel, largehearted people. No one gets written off, no one gets c......more