Up and Down, To and Fro, Round the Plot, Here I go
This book was really challenging for me because there is an ominous sense of doom almost to the end even though you kind of know what happened at the beginning.
It would be unfair to explain the plot because this is after all a thriller, and it is pacy and well written. There is a family in which one child has died, and this death has made the family implode. They are all not able to cope with the guilt and the tragedy. After a year has passed, the youngest brother of the woman who's lost the child persuades them all that they need to come together and mark the event in a way that will enable them to move on and start to heal.
It turns out that everything is not what it seems and that there are layers that need to be uncovered and forgiveness to be given and sometimes taken away. It is an unraveling of events that threatens to further unravel the family. It is good, the characters are believable but the back and forth see-saw of the plot was insanely annoying. That said, it really made me think about it a lot after I'd read it which is the sign of a good book!
It would be unfair to explain the plot because this is after all a thriller, and it is pacy and well written. There is a family in which one child has died, and this death has made the family implode. They are all not able to cope with the guilt and the tragedy. After a year has passed, the youngest brother of the woman who's lost the child persuades them all that they need to come together and mark the event in a way that will enable them to move on and start to heal.
It turns out that everything is not what it seems and that there are layers that need to be uncovered and forgiveness to be given and sometimes taken away. It is an unraveling of events that threatens to further unravel the family. It is good, the characters are believable but the back and forth see-saw of the plot was insanely annoying. That said, it really made me think about it a lot after I'd read it which is the sign of a good book!