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Testimony

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I want to thank Miriam with http://www.hachettebookgroup.com/ for sending me this book to review. Mike Bordwin is the headmaster at Avery Academy, a prestigious boarding school in New England. Mike suddenly finds himself heading up an investigation of the most scandalous kind the school has ever seen. A video tape has surfaced. The video shows a fourteen years old girl in a compromising position with three boys. Mike will have his hands full as he tries to get to the bottom of how this situation happened. A situation that will rock the whole community. I have to say that I thought Testimony was an ok book. It did have a good storyline. The problem I had with the book was that I wanted to take each character and shake some sense into them. The parents were oblivious to what their children’s actions and the children either thought they were untouchable or they wanted to sweep their mistakes under a rug so they could make their parents proud. I found the characters so whiny to me that i...

Book Contest

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Hey All. J. Kaye is holding another book contest and this time it's for an ARC of Testimony. This book doesn't come out till October 21, 2008. Head to this link to read J. Kaye's review and to enter. http://j-kaye-book-blog.blogspot.com/2008/08/testimony-by-anita-shreve.html