Becky Folsom Folsom من عند Bukene, تنزانيا
An engrossing novel that had me guessing until Jon makes his confession to Barbara! I couldn't read fast enough to find out what I wanted to know. lol From back cover: "The residents of Riggs Park nicknamed her Penny, since her hair was the red of a bright copper coin... We'd all grown up in the flourishing Washington, D.C., suburb-Marilyn, me, Steve, Penny and Wish...the boy I'd loved. It was during the baby-boom years, when the future was luminous. But things don't always turn out as expected. Riggs Park had secrets, and Penny was one of them. Sometimes there's a chance to go back and right a wrong, Marilyn is convinced Penny had had a baby, and that the child belonged to her family. My lifelong friend can't follow up-she's fighting cancer. Only I can search for answers. But would finding the truth break my heart...or set us all free?"
It wasn't great, but it was inexpensive for my Kindle and was easy to read at the gym.
okay, i've become a katherine hall page master. i can read these and know the killer before faith knows it herself. of course, she never seems to "know" - she seems to just get trapped by the person at the very end and her life gets threatened. i'm not sure how i feel about that. i think every once and awhile it's important for your detective to actually SOLVE the crime, not just stumble into the nefarious perpetrator's dastardly plans at the end. because then faith goes, "oh me! oh my! i didn't know it was you! you seemed so charming not fifty pages earlier! why are you smiling at me like that?" or something. actually this book would have received two stars EXCEPT that page references my all-time favorite book (Cold Comfort Farm) AND quotes my all-favorite line ("I saw something nasty in the woodshed"). which makes her, by default, awesome. but, really. think about having faith actually solve the murder next time.
I found this book very hard to read and not at all funny. Certain scenes were very disturbing and hard to get through.
Evelyn: I liked it because it was fun and because it was a little bit scary. My favorite part was when Meg met those monsters.
The first half was great, the second half was lacking and rushed it seemed, apparently the sequel redeems this fact.
You're not going to get most of the references in here unless you've done a fair (and I mean fair!) amount of reading. You're going to have to be familiar with classics like Wuthering Heights and Alice in Wonderland. You'll have to be familiar with how libraries and librarians work (and even if you are, you probably still won't understand how their library works. XD), how time and space bend together, how someone can die but still be alive, science fiction, fantasy, romance, the whole schebang! This is definitely a novel for book geeks. =) It makes the world just a bit brighter to know there's something out there for us!
This story was just okay. Not as engaging as other stories I read in the genre, and a bit dark (a bit too dark for YA). There are many other books that I would recommend over this book based on storyline and character development.
I think I'm going to like this book. maybe even take some yoga classes. REally a delightful book...lite, nothing literary, but its good