Jewell was able to write about a sad and frightening situation involving a crime against a child and capture the horrors without the flagrant description, instead relying on her talent for writing and her trust in the reader to fill the details, instead of gore and salacious details. 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.
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