Flint: A Novel

Maryann Davenport
BookSurge Publishing (2008)
ISBN 9781439211823
Reviewed by Danelle Drake for Reader Views (11/08)

 

The fertile, lush green garden and tranquil blue clouded sky give you a feeling of peace and beauty when you look at the cover of “Flint.”  The peace is short lived once you open the book.

Great-Aunt Honey and Onri make quite a pair.  Honey is the quirky aunt everyone longs for and Onri is a lost music teacher who has yet to decide what she wants out of life.  Onri comes to visit Honey and the two decide it would be a good idea if she stayed for a year to figure out what she wants to do for the rest of her life and exactly where she wants to live.  Aunt Honey has her own agenda.  She wants Onri to meet and fall in love with Gordon Flint.  Gordon is the prosperous town citizen who helps out Honey by buying her farm and letting her live on it and fixing everything she has that needs ‘a fixin.  Most everyone in town loves him, and those who don’t….well they really, really don’t.  Onri and Gordon meet and as predicted they fall head-over-heels in love almost at first sight. 

The loving was predicted but the turmoil that followed was definitely not.  Lori McCall is one evil bitch.  She is the one in town who really, really does not like Gordon.  Every man in town, except Gordon, is drooling at her feet and doing exactly what she says.  Gordon is obviously smarter than most and is not entranced by the sexual McCall. 

Life goes on through marriage, harvest, and murder, each day being another battle between Onri, Gordon and Lori.  “Flint” is a salute to the farmers, the educators, and the small town life.  A slow, pleasant, and gripping read, “Flint” by Maryann Davenport is one to savor and enjoy.

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