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The Serpent and the Stag
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Published: March 03, 2010
Words: 73045 (approximate)
Language: English
Ebook description
A serial killer lurks in the Northern California fog, and young women are disappearing. Sarah is 16, pretty, naive. Her beloved mother now dead, Sarah must run away from her hated aunt to search for the father she barely knows. Right into the serpent's den. What she finds horrifies her. Is the strange boy she meets there the real killer? Is her father involved? Can she escape before it's too late?Adult-content rating:
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romance, love, adventure, murder, travel, religion, california, tolerance, wicca, pagan, religious fanaticism, teenage, teenage romance, romance thriller, hippie, bus, mendocino, romance adventure, nature religion, commune, greyhound bus, fort bragg, pudding creek, stereotype, gothic romanceAvailable ebook reading formats
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Review by:
Kingbrian
on March 19, 2010 :
(no rating)
This is literary magic. It appears that Sarah is a mite superstitious, and consistently dumb for someone her age. She is feisty too. Quite refreshing in a heroine. There are more than a few clichés, well placed though. I suppose that it is what makes it a such a must read. Very Good dialogue. The characters are real. No over-lap in personalities what so ever. A sometimes campy but always sweet love story ...if it weren't so naughty I would say that it is a Nancy Drew type mystery and written for the tweener girl audience. It gets downright dirty.
(reviewed within a week of purchase)
Review by:
Tegwedd ShadowDancer
on March 14, 2010 :
(no rating)
I just finished reading Julie Ann Maahs’ novel “The Serpent and the Stag.” You should read it. You really should. I think it has something for each of us. In a way, it kind of reminds me of the movie “The Wizard of Oz”, where the scenes on the Kansas farm are in stark black and white, while the scenes in Oz are in full Technicolor. Sarah Marie starts out in the drab black and white world of fundamentalist Christianity, where they themselves are the only white pure ones, while anyone who disagree with them are creatures of darkness, and evil. She is plunged into a weird wide colorful world, when she goes looking for her father, and ends up at his commune, an idyllic, colorful place, which Sarah nonetheless sees as Satan’s playground. Were this book to be made into a movie, and I the art and lighting director, I would have all the scenes before Sarah runs away shot on black and white stock. Then when she meets Sam, it’s in color, but in very dark hues, all of it shot either at night, or in day-for-night. When she finally gets to the commune, everything would be in brilliant sun-washed color. Maybe I’d have the colors a little muted to symbolize Sarah’s point of view that all these people are devil-worshippers, and so, lost to her god.
It is a murder mystery, but Sarah is not a prime character in the mystery, a potential victim perhaps. Some Christians may object that the villain spouts all this righteous-sounding language, but speaking as a Pagan, I like it. I’m sure we’ve all heard far too many villains spout holy sounding language.
If I were a movie producer looking for a story to shoot, I would pick this one. It teaches all of us that we have something to learn about others, and that different does not mean bad.
Tegwedd ShadowDancer
(reviewed within a week of purchase)
Review by:
Tegwedd ShadowDancer
on March 14, 2010 :
(no rating)
I just finished reading Julie Ann Maahs’ novel “The Serpent and the Stag.” You should read it. You really should. I think it has something for each of us. In a way, it kind of reminds me of the movie “The Wizard of Oz”, where the scenes on the Kansas farm are in stark black and white, while the scenes in Oz are in full Technicolor. Sarah Marie starts out in the drab black and white world of fundamentalist Christianity, where they themselves are the only white pure ones, while anyone who disagree with them are creatures of darkness, and evil. She is plunged into a weird wide colorful world, when she goes looking for her father, and ends up at his commune, an idyllic, colorful place, which Sarah nonetheless sees as Satan’s playground. Were this book to be made into a movie, and I the art and lighting director, I would have all the scenes before Sarah runs away shot on black and white stock. Then when she meets Sam, it’s in color, but in very dark hues, all of it shot either at night, or in day-for-night. When she finally gets to the commune, everything would be in brilliant sun-washed color. Maybe I’d have the colors a little muted to symbolize Sarah’s point of view that all these people are devil-worshippers, and so, lost to her god.
It is a murder mystery, but Sarah is not a prime character in the mystery, a potential victim perhaps. Some Christians may object that the villain spouts all this righteous-sounding language, but speaking as a Pagan, I like it. I’m sure we’ve all heard far too many villains spout holy sounding language.
If I were a movie producer looking for a story to shoot, I would pick this one. It teaches all of us that we have something to learn about others, and that different does not mean bad.
Tegwedd ShadowDancer
(reviewed within a week of purchase)