Helpful Score: 3
I have loved all of Lippman's stand alone books, but this one was really a big disappointment! Very boring and hard to even make it through...don't bother with this one.
Helpful Score: 3
I am an avid reader of Laura Lippman and usually love her books. Not this one, I thought this was horrible; it was a book about an author doing research to write a book. I would much rather her researched it and then wrote the book it would have been much better. There are so many characters in this book that the author even gets them mixed up and at one point uses the wrong name for the character that she is talking about. There is a twist at the end but was not a good enough twist to redeem the rest of the book.
Helpful Score: 2
Enjoyed the premise; good storyline. Seemed overly wordy at times.
Helpful Score: 1
Disappointing. Did not hold my interest and did not finish.
Helpful Score: 1
I expected this book to be a mystery about Callie Jenkins and her missing baby. What happened to the baby? Who's the baby's father? What's the big secret? Instead, this book was about race relations, class structure and the lies parents tell their kids to protect them. I thought the ending was unsatisfying. I just wished for more from this book. Not in the same league as "To the Power of Three".
And boy were there a lot of affairs! It was almost as if there was pro-affair propaganda going on.
And boy were there a lot of affairs! It was almost as if there was pro-affair propaganda going on.
