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 A coming of age adventure Dec 09, 2008
Anna and Cindy have a mission to fulfill: find Anna's sister Daria, who was lost long ago to The Group, a mysterious cult that has community houses across the country, each with its own purpose. This sets in motion an adventurous summer full of mystery, intrigue, and just a little bit of magic that brings the girls from the east coast to the west, from Boston to Kentucky, Boulder to Santa Cruz. The search intensifies as the girls then strive to return a stolen fiddle to its rightful owner, Daria's new husband. No one can be trusted. There seem to be eyes everywhere. The Group shadows their every move. Even people who seem to be the most unexpected and trustworthy have a hidden agenda.
Ms. Moore's expressive prose brings these locations and this journey to life. I could feel the girls' excitement about the journey as the open road and expansive skies beckon, and their bewilderment as Daria's trail again slips through their fingers. I could smell the clean air and see the clouds of the Rocky Mountain National Park, feel the rock face under Anna's fingers as she struggled to reach the top of the climb outside Boulder. It becomes apparent that the point of the trek turns out to be the journey itself, not the goal.
However, although there are some unexpected twists and turns, the plot was just not that complex, even a little predictable at times. Yet, I really liked Ms. Moore's descriptive prose, and overall, she has succeeded in creating memorable characters that I was disappointed to leave behind at the end of the book. This book features an era where the folk music scene was at its peak and a pair of girls could stick out their thumb on a highway and find adventure. Join them and enjoy the ride.
Rated: 3.5 Stars
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 Stick Out Your Thumb and Take the Trip Nov 27, 2008
The Fidldle Case brought me back to the days in the late 60's and early 70's when you could stick out your thumb and cast yourself into any adventure. Anna and Cindy travel through a landscape filled with Appalachian scoundrels, down to earth saviors, false prophets, brainwashed devotees and just plain good friends and lovers.
The music scene in the book is true to form and shows us a time when pure motives began to turn to dark.. At any point in their trip, Anna and Cindy could have turned around and gone home but the music and its spell keeps them going. Like all great traveling stories, the trip and not the goal becomes the reason to go.
Anna and Cindy show us of the foundation of our present world and its music. There are no illusions. The times were both simple and complex. Coming of age is never easy. Anna and Cindy do it with love and grace and some hair raising adventures. If I were you, I would stick out my thumb and join them.
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Great story of friendship and a captivating read Nov 23, 2008
I'm a young adult and what really made me feel connected tothis book was the relationship between the two main characters, Cindy and Anna. The story captures the nitty gritty of friendship, with all its ups and downs . I also really enjoyed relating to a different era...to a time during which I wasn't even born. It made me feel like i wished I was one of the characters in the book.
I think girls my age (late teens-early twenties) would really like this book both becasue it get so into issues of friendship but also it lets you know what it might have been like for our mothers back in the 70s.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Great story of friendship and a captivating read Nov 23, 2008
I'm a young adult and what really made me feel connected tothis book was the relationship between the two main characters, Cindy and Anna. The story captures the nitty gritty of friendship, with all its ups and downs . I also really enjoyed relating to a different era...to a time during which I wasn't even born. It made me feel like i wished I was one of the characters in the book.
I think girls my age (late teens-early twenties) would really like this book both becasue it get so into issues of friendship but also it lets you know what it might have been like for our mothers back in the 70s.
0 of 3 found the following review helpful:
 Didn't like it . Nov 23, 2008
I wanted to like this book more than I did.
I felt as if this were a sort of teenage Thelma and Louise romp through cults,
off the radar music and the past. I tried to care about Cindy and Anna, or Daria or Charlie
or anyone really. When characters vanished or died I couldn't have cared less.
The story had no flow in my opinion. It seemed stuttering, disjointed and bland.
I was just anxious for it to be over.
Perhaps someone who wasn't "there" in the seventies would like it more? Or maybe someone who was more "there" than I was? Not a fun or even remotely enjoyable read for me. This is not to say that it won't be for you.
But really, Thelma and Louise did it better, or at least with more imagination and interest
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