Walter J. (reading-is-bliss) - , reviewed on 5/19/2019 + 73 more book reviews

I had purchased this book because of the many great reviews I had read, and after doing so I posted it on Goodreads. Before starting it, naturally, I browsed through member reviews and was concerned to see a significant number who expressed disappointment. Well, now I have read it and I must say I liked it a lot. The author's writing style I found quite enjoyable. Her switching between the present (2016) and thirty years earlier (1986) at first I found somewhat perplexing but soon came to feel it provided a most interesting perspective. Indeed, in real life, I believe all of us cycle in our perspective as we proceed through each day sometimes (hopefully most times) thinking in our "adult" state of mind, sometimes in our "child" and (yes, Thomas Harris, thank you) sometimes in our "parent". So what Tudor does here, by actually making the switch physically as well as mentally (which, of course, can only be done in fiction) makes a great deal of sense to me. The plot itself, I found quite plausible, even if it was a bit morbid, and the story-telling certainly held my attention throughout. Overall I easily gave it a 4-star rating.

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