The Weight of Blood by Laura McHugh
A social worker tells Lila, a young woman on the verge of aging out of foster care, that she needs to get her life in order. She finds what she thinks is her ticket out, by signing an employment contract to work in a small town in Missouri. What awaits her is something very different.
Usually I enjoy reading stories that use different characters perspectives. But I have to say, in this case I struggled with it. The page counter on my Kindle read 40% before I figured out that Lucy is Lila's daughter and that the story is not only written from different points of view but that these two main characters were living in different time periods. One thing I have learned is there are things that a writer doesn't reveal to the reader in order to keep them reading. The setting however, is never one of those things.
I am not one for reading many mysteries, but I love when a good one keeps me interested. The Weight of Blood was far too predictable and the ending left me disappointed. Too much weight for me.
A social worker tells Lila, a young woman on the verge of aging out of foster care, that she needs to get her life in order. She finds what she thinks is her ticket out, by signing an employment contract to work in a small town in Missouri. What awaits her is something very different.Usually I enjoy reading stories that use different characters perspectives. But I have to say, in this case I struggled with it. The page counter on my Kindle read 40% before I figured out that Lucy is Lila's daughter and that the story is not only written from different points of view but that these two main characters were living in different time periods. One thing I have learned is there are things that a writer doesn't reveal to the reader in order to keep them reading. The setting however, is never one of those things.
I am not one for reading many mysteries, but I love when a good one keeps me interested. The Weight of Blood was far too predictable and the ending left me disappointed. Too much weight for me.
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