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May 30, 2017
Intelligent, funny and effortless. As good as they come and not over too fast. Some of the writing is overly sentimental, but maybe my family just never used cloying affection like, "Daddy". What teenager goes on saying, Daddy, Daddy, Daddy. Tick is not a believable teenager. I feel for her in only that she's a device for Miles own end. I honestly wouldn't have cared if she died at the end. It would only be used to make Miles more scarred than before which everyone and everything in Empire Falls is sad with either physical or emotional loss. Many people die violently, and somehow the rich and the poor lives of one small town owned and controlled by an old rich woman all intermingle until she's finally killed off. I don't see any of these characters surviving more than five years after the end of the novel. They're all doomed is the feeling I have and all long before there's purpose or redemption. Should be called the Curse of Empire Falls.