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Loading... Swanna in Loveby Jennifer Belle
   None No current Talk conversations about this book.   This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers. ) lisan. | Jun 11, 2024 |  This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers. ) TonyaJ | Mar 9, 2024 | This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers.Mom does come get her with her new boyfriend, Borislav. He is an artist and they are going to an artists' colony in Vermont - after they pick up Swanna's little brother Madding, About this artists' colony... they do not allow children. Swanna and Madding must sleep in the back of the pickup truck. One evening, at the bowling alley where the colony puts on an art show, Swanna meets Dennis, a married man there at the alley with his two children, Dennis is smitten with Swanna. NOTE - Swanna is fourteen years old. The rest of the novel had me questioning everything that Swanna did and said. I stopped liking her and that made me stop caring about her story until near the end when she seemed to try to come to her senses. Overall, the book is well-written, but the unlikable protagonist left me wanting something different from her story. (  ) aimless22 | Mar 5, 2024 | This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers.After Swanna is abandoned by her mom at an artist's colony that does not allow children, she meets Dennis. In his 30's, married and with 2 little children, he becomes obsessed with Swanna. Despite a few uncomfortable scenes, the book was a really good read. Swanna has such a sarcastic sense of humor and her interactions with those around her was addictive. If you want to read a coming-of-age book involving first love and the end of childhood innocence, then this is the book for you. The only disappointing part was the abrupt ending. It ended way too suddenly but it did not stop me from enjoying the book. I received a complimentary book from LibraryThing Early Reviewers in exchange for a review. (  ) melaniehope | Mar 4, 2024 | This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers. glendalea | Feb 21, 2024 | no reviews | add a review
Best-selling author Belle (High Maintenance, Going Down) unleashes her first new novel in over ten years It's the summer of 1982 and fourteen-year-old Swanna Swain is the only one left at camp. The place is a ghost town by the time her mother Val finally shows up six hours late--stoned and radiant--in a Ford pickup driven by Borislav, her new young Russian lover. Assuming she is headed home to her air-conditioned Upper West Side apartment, Swanna and her lovable younger brother Madding are instead dragged to Vermont--to an artist colony where kids are not welcome and they are forced to sleep in the back of the truck, while Val is cozy inside the house with the Russian. Then Swanna meets Dennis, a handsome married father of two, at a bowling alley, and, knowing a thing or two about seduction from Judy Blume, her best friend at camp, and her own parents' many affairs--she sets out to convince Dennis to help her. But love seldom obeys rules, and even a tough, smart, city girl like Swanna might not be able to handle falling in love. Best-selling novelist Jennifer Belle returns with a kind of inverse Lolita that explores adolescent desire from the girl's point of view. In turns hilarious and wildly shocking, Swanna In Love will keep your feathers ruffled and the pages gliding by. No library descriptions found. |
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