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Title: No Saints in Kansas
Author: Amy Brashear
Narrator: Eva Kaminsky
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
Language: English
Release date: 11-14-17
Publisher: Recorded Books
Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Historical
Publisher's Summary:
A gripping reimagining of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood and the brutal murders that inspired it
November is usually quiet in Holcomb, Kansas, but in 1959, the town is shattered by the quadruple murder of the Clutter family. Suspicion falls on Nancy Clutter's boyfriend, Bobby Rupp, the last one to see them alive.
New Yorker Carly Fleming, new to the small Midwestern town, is an outsider. She tutored Nancy, and (in private, at least) they were close. Carly and Bobby were the only ones who saw that Nancy was always performing, and that she was cracking under the pressure of being Holcomb's golden girl. The secret connected Carly and Bobby. Now that Bobby is an outsider, too, they're bound closer than ever.
Determined to clear Bobby's name, Carly dives into the murder investigation and ends up in trouble with the local authorities. But that's nothing compared to the wrath she faces from Holcomb once the real perpetrators are caught. When her father is appointed to defend the killers of the Clutter family, the entire town labels the Flemings as traitors. Now Carly must fight for what she knows is right.
Members Reviews:
Does it work as historical fiction? No. As YA? Eh. As a companion to In Cold Blood? Ehhhhhh.
This book feels to me like someone had a germ of a good idea and decided to go with it, and then never realized that it was only a germ and not a full novel's worth. The story is that of Carly Fleming, a high schooler who attended school with Nancy Clutter. In order to create a new character in one of the most documented towns in literature, Brashear says that Carly was Nancy's secret math tutor. Carly has a fixation on Nancy Clutter that walks just this side of creepy.
The ending is honestly just not good. But it's also not bad. Just nothing happens. It just ends. I'm not sure what I expected, but I felt like I trudged through so much book that I definitely wanted *something* to happen... except it doesn't.
The fact that Brashear is a first time author felt very, very obvious to me, which is a shame. For one thing, Carly's aunt is a super convenient figure, who sends her things like Chanel dresses and Ouija boards and cameras, conveniently timed as the plot needs them. References to Truman Capote and Harper Lee are ham-handed at best. The disdain Carly's classmates feel for her for being from New York City ("the wrong Manhattan," as is repeated probably a hundred times in the book) is unbelievable. It's impossible that everyone would look down on her and not a single person would be curious about the city. And worst, it doesn't work as historical fiction, either. For instance, every kid in the book has their own car. Carly's family seems to have three cars, no less, one of which is a Porsche (on a public defender's salary!). And there's no explanation for how her family ended up in Kansas, aside from a brief mention of her dad having spent some time in Colorado when he was a kid.
In Cold Blood from a Teenage Viewpoint
It's all but impossible not to refer back to Capote's beautiful classic prose and storytelling (fact telling) in "In Cold Blood" and in fact brashear includes many clever references back to Capote's work but that isn't her focus.
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Title: No Saints in Kansas
Author: Amy Brashear
Narrator: Eva Kaminsky
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
Language: English
Release date: 11-14-17
Publisher: Recorded Books
Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Historical
Publisher's Summary:
A gripping reimagining of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood and the brutal murders that inspired it
November is usually quiet in Holcomb, Kansas, but in 1959, the town is shattered by the quadruple murder of the Clutter family. Suspicion falls on Nancy Clutter's boyfriend, Bobby Rupp, the last one to see them alive.
New Yorker Carly Fleming, new to the small Midwestern town, is an outsider. She tutored Nancy, and (in private, at least) they were close. Carly and Bobby were the only ones who saw that Nancy was always performing, and that she was cracking under the pressure of being Holcomb's golden girl. The secret connected Carly and Bobby. Now that Bobby is an outsider, too, they're bound closer than ever.
Determined to clear Bobby's name, Carly dives into the murder investigation and ends up in trouble with the local authorities. But that's nothing compared to the wrath she faces from Holcomb once the real perpetrators are caught. When her father is appointed to defend the killers of the Clutter family, the entire town labels the Flemings as traitors. Now Carly must fight for what she knows is right.
Members Reviews:
Does it work as historical fiction? No. As YA? Eh. As a companion to In Cold Blood? Ehhhhhh.
This book feels to me like someone had a germ of a good idea and decided to go with it, and then never realized that it was only a germ and not a full novel's worth. The story is that of Carly Fleming, a high schooler who attended school with Nancy Clutter. In order to create a new character in one of the most documented towns in literature, Brashear says that Carly was Nancy's secret math tutor. Carly has a fixation on Nancy Clutter that walks just this side of creepy.
The ending is honestly just not good. But it's also not bad. Just nothing happens. It just ends. I'm not sure what I expected, but I felt like I trudged through so much book that I definitely wanted *something* to happen... except it doesn't.
The fact that Brashear is a first time author felt very, very obvious to me, which is a shame. For one thing, Carly's aunt is a super convenient figure, who sends her things like Chanel dresses and Ouija boards and cameras, conveniently timed as the plot needs them. References to Truman Capote and Harper Lee are ham-handed at best. The disdain Carly's classmates feel for her for being from New York City ("the wrong Manhattan," as is repeated probably a hundred times in the book) is unbelievable. It's impossible that everyone would look down on her and not a single person would be curious about the city. And worst, it doesn't work as historical fiction, either. For instance, every kid in the book has their own car. Carly's family seems to have three cars, no less, one of which is a Porsche (on a public defender's salary!). And there's no explanation for how her family ended up in Kansas, aside from a brief mention of her dad having spent some time in Colorado when he was a kid.
In Cold Blood from a Teenage Viewpoint
It's all but impossible not to refer back to Capote's beautiful classic prose and storytelling (fact telling) in "In Cold Blood" and in fact brashear includes many clever references back to Capote's work but that isn't her focus.