Tinker's Cove has bigots
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# 24 in the Lucy Stone series and this one shifts from cozy into the new bigotry coming to small town Tinker's Cove Maine.

Lucy finds the frozen body of Alison Franklin, daughter of the latest retired CEO millionaire to move into Tinker's Cove, the town is abuzz with the idea of drugs playing a part in the death.

When Rey Rodriguez arrives to bring his high-class Mexican restaurant to Tinker's Cove he never expected the reception he would experience with America For Americans movement.

This isn't the warm fuzzy cozy I expected but then the US political situation isn't the warm fuzzy it has been for the past decade either. Ms Meier handled the issue of preconceived ideas and explosive emotions very well.

I volunteered to read an ARC from Kensington through Net Galley.
2263438
This book is homophobic and hateful.  There is a reason 60 people want to sell it for a dollar.
4570182
I'd be more likely to read this book if the son wasn't still a white man from Maine who uses the N-word and holds some extreme far right views. Check out his Facebook or Instagram accounts before you pay for this book.
1292542
Before you buy this book please take a few minutes to read about the author. You will quickly discover that Alice Walker is an inveterate racist bigot. She has openly proclaimed her hatred of Jews, participated in a terrorist flotilla against the Jewish state and has hobnobbed with the elite of the Middle East terror organizations.  Her most recent racist stunt was to publicly proclaim that her book not be translated into Hebrew because she does not want Jews to read her book.

As for her book, one can only say that it is an obnoxious hypocrisy. A book supposedly about the horrors of racism written by a racist!

Please do not patronize this evil woman. Shun her book like the plague.
724116
For a book written only 11 years ago, the homophobia in it is just astounding. Anti-gay slurs abound from the mouths of the characters, who, of course, are creations of the author. The most evil man in the novel, a Nazi-like police chief, is a closet case with a predilection for pretty young men. The author created that character too. When another character uses racist words, he is taken to task. Nothing of the sort happens to anyone who uses anti-gay slurs and one can only conclude that the author wanted it that way. I cannot recommend this piece of trash to anyone. I  looked at the author's blog, where he very unconvincingly denies being a homophobe, but quit seeing a doctor who he thought might be interested in him without even finding out if he was right. But, the doctor was a proctologist, and I wonder if he saw something in the author and decided to take a hike on his own.
22834
As an immigrant and a nightclubber, I also have moved to a surf town where the vibe was really off.  Ignorance and prejudice are rampant in a surf bubble town.  Hurry to be kind, life is short.
1761779
Sales of this book directly support hate monger James David Manning and his group Atlah Ministries, designated a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. Research the group before you buy this book as you may not like who you're supporting.
1340218
This book cover is an absolute disgrace. It is disgusting. I lived in PEI for 3 years as a child and I am offended on behalf of all East coasters and all sane people everywhere because of the sad fact that this was EVER allowed to exist. Blonde? Sexy eyes and pose? RIDICULOUS. A travesty to Canadian history, and I am outraged.

This is the first amazon review I've ever written - I just couldn't stay quiet.
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The word that comes to my mind most when I think of this documentary is "disturbing," and I mean that in more than one way. It's disturbing that so many Evangelical Christians are so bigoted, ignorant, and blind that they would hurt so many children so profoundly. They would like to indoctrinate your children to their narrow beliefs as well.  Becky, the pastor who ran the camp, is clearly emotionally disturbed and the parents who sent their children to such an indoctrination of bigotry and hatred are misguided, to put it mildly.  They are totally clueless as to how they are hurting their children.  People of all faiths as well as non-believers have to wake up to the danger these people threaten to not only our children but to our basic freedoms as Americans.  (As a side note, I found it ironic that the head of the Evangelical Christians of America who preached against homosexuality in the documentary has since stepped down when it was learned that he was engaging in homosexual sex himself.)
1821021
I, too, find hate to be impossible to ignore. Racism is inexcusable, so why shouldn't trashing an entire religion? This really upset me because i have already read every Reacher book, but was re reading the series when the passage jumped out at me. Somehow i skimmed over it previously. Im glad i caught it this time, however, because as disappointed as i am to have to boycott Mr. Child, as a Christian...no not only that, as a human being, i must. Tolerating hate spawns hate. Sad, Mr. Child, unnecessarily hateful.
3223329
My grand daughter picked out this book at the library.
I feel that this book is inappropriate for our young people. On two different pages the word "fart" is used. That word is forbidden in my home as it is also forbidden in school. Why use that word in a children's book when it is not allowed in homes, nor schools?
The illustrations are what my grandchildren enjoyed, but as I read this book to them I could tell that the author has a social agenda to push.
She makes the strong male character change to be more of a sissy and even ends up wearing a rainbow illustrated t-shirt. Now perhaps I am reading more into this, but isn't the rainbow used by the gay community as their logo?
Also, more on the social agenda...the couple who are the parents of this princess are a mixed race couple. Sure that happens in society, but why push it in a children's book!
Perhaps many of you will disagree with my opinions, but I do not care since I prefer for them to read the more traditional books for my grands!
I am returning this book with their official complaint form.
3566834
This book makes the intolerance, nonacceptance, and bigotry about those who are different an everyday, normal, acceptable thing and it is not!

Furthermore it shows the parent bunnies as being cowards and not standing up for their little oddball bunnies. That is not okay either.

This is an awful, awful book. I would never read this to my kids and I'm glad I caught it before they read it. (We received it as a gift.)
4959834
When I was young, about to attend Sydney Lanier Jr. High in the Houston Independent School District, I asked my mother, "Who was Sidney Lanier?"  She said with hushed awe, "Oh...Sydney Lanier was a great poet and author!"  She did not say "He served in the Confederate Army." No one I ever spoke with in my entire life in Houston ever said, "Sydney Lanier was a Confederate soldier." No one ever said, "Oh, that Sydney Lanier was a horrible racist." Now, the Houston Independent School District is changing the name of this school because he served in the Confederate army in his youth, as did almost every white young man in the South at the time. All his great accomplishments after this event very early in his life do not matter, because HISD is more interested in spending thousands and thousands of dollars to appear to be politically correct rather than actually focus on education. All HISD demonstrates by this action is that they are anti-intellectual, and mostly illiterate, a fact to which a vast majority of parents and teachers in the district will attest. The district is in shambles. It is an abomination to our youth. They should be focusing on educating students, paying teachers a decent wage, and actually understanding history and the arts, not on this ridiculous waste of taxpayer money.  I am embarrassed that I have lived in HISD in recent years, and I apologize to the memory of Sydney Lanier that these fellow citizens are so ignorant.
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This is the first review I have written on Amazon and I am a little sad that the first is a negative one. This book is a 250+ page ethnic joke. I found it to be incredibly offensive. The characters are all the worst possible stereotypes. I cringe to think that people are "laughing out loud" at these people. Furthermore, it is completelty devoid of Jane Austen's love for humanity. Read the classic again and again and appreciate the human condition as depicted by a master, not this "dreck"(trash). As for the complaint that some of the reviewers had regarding the use of yiddishism, some of the yiddish words were used so incorrectly that they made no sense at all.
3694261
Margaret Mitchell wrote a great story, but the racist language and ideology is intolerable. That she was a product of her time doesn't make it acceptable.
4255709
Nope, did not like the union skank. I did not like the token ethnic friends either.
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Hey Amazon (and ORE international). There has to be another way to describe this other than "coolie" lampshade. If you don't know, there is deep historic racism of the term. Look it up.