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Cage of Stars | 
 enlarge | Author: Jacquelyn Mitchard
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  85 reviews
Sales Rank: 262869
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 336
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5.2 x 1
ISBN: 0446696722
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780446696722
ASIN: 0446696722
Publication Date: August 29, 2007
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Product Description
12-year-old Veronica Swan's idyllic life in a close-knit Mormon community is shattered when her two younger sisters are brutally murdered. Although her parents find the strength to forgive the deranged killer, Scott Early, Veronica cannot do the same. Years later, she sets out alone to avenge her sisters' deaths, dropping her identity and severing ties in the process. As she closes in on Early, Veronica will discover the true meaning of sin and compassion, before she makes a decision that will change her and her family's lives forever.
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 Completely Ludicrous July 14, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
A non-LDS friend recommended this to me, saying it seemed very authentic and realistic in its portrayal of Mormonism. It was completely ridiculous. She got nearly everything about Mormons, and Utah, completely wrong. It was like she asked a few questions, didn't really understand what she was being told, and made up her own drivel to fill in the holes. It was painfully obvious that no LDS member read that novel at ANY stage until after it was already published, or they would have corrected her on nearly everything related to the Church. She blatantly didn't know what she was talking about. There was nothing even remotely accurate in that book.
 Yawn. June 28, 2008
If foreshadowing was a snake, you'd be dead by Chapter 2. Really dull. Really disappointing.
This book was awful!! June 25, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I hated this book. I rarely won't finish a book--even a bad one--but this one was awful. Not the plot--a young girl seeks revenge for the murder of her two little sisters--but the authors lack of knowledge on the family's religion sent me through the roof. If you are going to write about a group of people--DO SOME RESEARCH! She had so many wrong statements about Mormons it was pathetic. There isn't a temple in Cedar City, Mormons would not call the Salt Lake Temple the "big" temple, girls wear their wedding dresses when they are married, fathers don't give a father's blessing ever night and morning--they have family prayer, jell-o is such a cliché, and a return missionary is called an RM not a MSS. The list of her discrepancies goes on and on. I kept reading hoping that she would get past the religion thing and get on with the story but I gave up after 100 or so pages. I am still very annoyed, displeased, irritated, etc... by the author.
Wonderfully written.... May 22, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
If the rating system was based on tears I cried while reading this novel, I would have to give it a thousand stars....
This is the first book I have read by Ms. Mitchard, and I was captivated from the first paragraph; as one reviewer observed, this book practically begs to be read. It is a story of redemption, vengeance, questioning one's belief system, forgiveness, love, hate, life, death and the choices we make. It is told from the perspective of Ronnie, a teenage Mormon girl who happened to witness the brutal murder of her two beloved younger sisters at the age of twelve. Interestingly, this horific act truly takes a back seat to the stories of the family itself - the lives of the people who were taken and those who survived. While we do learn about the killer and his life, the novel focuses more on the lives of those who are affected by his crimes. This is quite the antithesis of the way the media presents a story; if this happened in real life, the public would know every conceivable detail about the life of the killer, and have little or no information about the family who was so deeply and irrevocably affected by the crime.
This story is deeply moving and emotional (I cried a lot, which was quite embarrassing while reading in public); however it is not a "depressing" story; rather, it is touching and uplifiting. It restores one's faith in humanity, so to speak.
I recommend it highly, think it makes a great discussion piece, and am looking forward to reading more of this author's works.
Get your facts straight! April 28, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I started reading this book because our book club is going to review it. I was disappointed from about page one. I am a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints ( pretty liberal member ), and I was very offended by the fact that the author did not have one single fact straight regarding the Mormon religion, which is central to this story. Some of her facts about our church are aggregiously inaccurate and knowing that people all over the country are reading these gross misrepresentations about our culture and religion is most frustrating. As for the story, I have never had to grieve over something so heinous as this murder, but I have a friend who has, and it seemed the dysfunctionality of this family went on and on and on. The characters were not fleshed out very well and nothing held me to this book. Once I got online and read over more of the reviews, I could easily figure out the ending, so spared myself the waste of time of finishing the last 1/3 of the book. On to better literature. Mary Silver, Farmington, Utah
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