Helpful Score: 1
In one word, depressing.
It's the mid-nineties and Jean, her husband Thomas, and her daughter Billie are on a chartered boat with her brother-in-law Rich and his girlfriend, Adeline. Jean has to do a photo essay of some islands off the coast of Maine where a horrific murder took place in the 1800's. Jean becomes fascinated with the crime, starts to believe that her husband is having an affair, and becomes so emotionally unstable that she finds she is capable of committing horrific acts.
The book is one of those 'story within a story' books. I found the jumps to be, well, too jumpy. I didn't mind the chapter in the present time and then the chapter in the 1800's. What really bothered me was the paragraph in present times then the sentence in 1800's then the next sentence present times. It was all over the place and too confusing. This book is filled with a cast of really unlikeable characters, and typically when that happens in books, the characters have some redeeming quality that makes you overlook it. That doesn't happen in this book.
It's the mid-nineties and Jean, her husband Thomas, and her daughter Billie are on a chartered boat with her brother-in-law Rich and his girlfriend, Adeline. Jean has to do a photo essay of some islands off the coast of Maine where a horrific murder took place in the 1800's. Jean becomes fascinated with the crime, starts to believe that her husband is having an affair, and becomes so emotionally unstable that she finds she is capable of committing horrific acts.
The book is one of those 'story within a story' books. I found the jumps to be, well, too jumpy. I didn't mind the chapter in the present time and then the chapter in the 1800's. What really bothered me was the paragraph in present times then the sentence in 1800's then the next sentence present times. It was all over the place and too confusing. This book is filled with a cast of really unlikeable characters, and typically when that happens in books, the characters have some redeeming quality that makes you overlook it. That doesn't happen in this book.
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