MY THOUGHTS
I had very mixed emotions about the protagonist, Geo Shaw. Sometimes I felt sympathy for her plight, sometimes I wondered how she could sleep at night. How COULD SHE have done what she did? How COULD SHE have not reported the crime - for fourteen years!
As the book moves along, the reader is made privy to Geo's past and what really happened back then. Yet still, I was torn about whether I could like her. Did my sympathy outweigh my repugnance for her former actions? I chided myself for being judgmental.
This novel was well-written and very fast-paced. Often intense and unsettling, though riveting at the same time. The ending had what I can only deem a shocking and unsavory twist. Was justice meted out in the end? You be the judge.
One things for sure. I'll never be able to eat a cinnamon heart again without thinking about this novel.