Barbara Kingsolver is an outstanding author and has an amazing way with words. She opened up a world in Southern Appalachia with characters and circumstances that has the reader apprehensive as to what was forthcoming on the next page. I would have rated Demon Copperhead 5 stars, except for the fact the book began to really drag for me around the 60% mark. It picked up again near the end and I was glad of the ending. It is a story I will think about.