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This is a strange and wondrous book. It reminds me of True Grit, but with just the girl and no Rooster Cogburn, plus zombies. Also the chase is in reverse - in True Grit the girl is hunting down the man who killed her father, while in this book the girl is being hunted down by the man whose brother she killed. That girl, 15-year-old Temple, was born post-zombie apocalypse, so it's the only world she knows. She's tough as nails and slices and dices the "meatskins" (and anybody else who threatens her, for that matter) like nobody's business. But even with all the action and brutal violence, this is in incredibly thoughtful and achingly beautiful novel. It's full of big ideas (What does it mean to be human? Is it enough to survive? Can there be beauty and magic and light in a dark and broken world?), plus the pacing is flawless and the prose essentially the brilliant love child of Faulkner and Cormac McCarthy. I have a feeling this book isn't for everyone, but it's easily earned a place in my top ten. A snippet: "And she turns her back on the lost and the dead and the trampled down, she leaves them to their airy graves, and she and the big man next to her look upward at heaven and find there not just gates and angels but other wonders too, like airplanes that go faster than sound and statues taller than any man and waterfalls taller than any statues and buildings taller than any waterfall and stories taller still that reach up and hook you by the britches on the cusp of the moon, where you can look and see the earth whole, and you can see how silly and precious a little marble it really is after all."

scary look at what it means to be bi-polar and to be the support for someone going through a severe depression, beautifully written

Okay, so this is the real reason why I purchased an e-reader. So I can comfortably download and read priceless freebies like this. Seriously, with a title like this I couldn’t resist. So hear me out on my three star rating…this was actually pretty damn funny. As you can guess this story is a spinoff of the fairy tale story The Princess and the Pea, except instead of a pea it’s a penis of mythical proportions poking the princes in where else, but her rump. hehe. Oh it gets better folks. The princess is a really innocent girl thanks to her overprotective father so she has no idea what is keeping her up at night. When she describes to her parents what is poking out of her mattress that is when the mayhem ensues as they try to get the penis out of her mattress. I’ll keep the details to myself, but I will say there were some hilarious scenes and lines which made this a decent read.