

We all chose to quit reading KS.) While not the same subject AT ALL so gruesomely detailed in KS works, I couldn't help but compare the author's choices. Whatever floats your boats - (I won't go into details, but we worked with incarcerated sex offenders and were unanimously concerned with a particular book of KS.

Slaughter, until I had professionals in my field point out the dangerously gratuitous violence against women in that author's books. It's hard to throw an avid reader off track, but I have to give Jewell props for keeping me guessing. The delivery, in the beginning, was achingly slow, but I realized as the pace picked up later that that beginning with the barely perceptible ticks here and there was the author's stratagem - like a comfortable drift downstream until the first rapid upends your tranquil ride and submerges you in a truly horrible world of tumult and heartbreak. This is the first book I've read by Lisa Jewell and I was impressed by the very good writing and sophisticated set up of the story.

Even the silver lining is a bit bittersweet and tarnished by the immensity of what is lost in the years. If you've got the heart for it.this is a great read, just very sad and dark.
