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This excerpt was quite short, making it difficult to really judge. The writing style has an...
Wow. The beginning of this book is heartbreaking and intriguing all at the same time. Since I...
Wasn't a very long sample to read, but even from that short excerpt I can tell that the author...
This sounds promising. However, part of me is a bit worried. So many times you read a book that...
As others said, I just found this first impression to be too short to gauge a full interest. The...
We have seen lots of news stories about the relations between black and white folks in the south...
I love the look of the cover. For some reason, when I looked at it, it reminded me of The Andy...
The cover makes me wonder who Issac is and makes me want to open it to find out. The story...
It...it’s 2018...and we’re...still publishing books about black folks in the south...by white...
Wow! This book seems like it would be great. It focuses on many past parts of southern lives....
This First Impression was short, but the writing is strong and the ending certainly left me...
From the synopsis alone, this sounds like the kind of book kids are going to be assigned in...
I had read that this book was beautifully written and I could see that in just the first two...
This book is very interesting and has an intriguing premise. From this small sample, there is...
This sounds like an interesting enough concept but I'm not sure it will executed very well. From...
The writing starts off strong with a grand potential to be one of the heavy hitters in literary...
The first look of Missing Isaac is too short to really get a good impression of the book. I would...
The blurb for this book makes it sound really good. A missing black man in racially divided 1960s...
Valerie Fraser Luesse's writing is beautiful! Her descriptions evoke emotion from the reader and...
Just from the first few pages you can tell this book will be poignant and full of emotion. The...
My big gripe right now is the fact that the excerpt was too short and I was not able to develop...
This book has a beautiful cover that immediately got me interested. Reading the blurb, it seems...
I was surprised how quickly this excerpt pulled me in. Not my usual first choice of genre, but...
The cover drew me into the story because it showed a little boy walking away, and I wondered...
I think this book will be a great read! It addresses slavery and the lengths one human being...
I would love a chance to read this entire story. We can learn much from children - especially...
This sounds like a book I would LOVE to read. It has enough here to make it interesting and tense...
"Missing Isaac" looks like an intriguing book to me. I think it sounds very interesting to me,...
This story pulled me in from the very first paragraph. The author has a way of vividly...
The visceral story telling here is hard to peel yourself out of. When the sneak peak ended, it...
Pete is a young boy in the south in the 1960’s, enjoying his boyhood and idolizing his father. ...
Why is Isaac soaking wet? From the very first line, this book reaches out and grabs you. The time...
This is a very short first look. Giving just a glimpse of what is going on. Why is Isaac wet?...
It was a very brief glimpse but you can feel the child’s love and pain in the few pages you do...
Gasp. I like books that expand my worldview, and Missing Isaac promises that. But the First Look...
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