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3.86 AVERAGE
3.86 AVERAGE
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
this was very addicting to read!!!!!! i loved having multiple different “solutions” that would make sense but the ACTUAL solution was one i wasn’t expecting!!!!
this was a very interesting and realistic look into religious cults & how people get sucked into them so easily — even so much so that they are willing to sacrifice their families and marriages in order to sustain membership… i honestly think this is so much more common in society than people think!!!!! i really wanna know what kim is gonna do though like …. is she gonna forgive or what???? TELL ME !!!!
this was a very interesting and realistic look into religious cults & how people get sucked into them so easily — even so much so that they are willing to sacrifice their families and marriages in order to sustain membership… i honestly think this is so much more common in society than people think!!!!! i really wanna know what kim is gonna do though like …. is she gonna forgive or what???? TELL ME !!!!
I enjoyed this easy to follow mystery/thriller
I had forgotten how crazy religious fanatics can be
I had forgotten how crazy religious fanatics can be
emotional
mysterious
fast-paced
Meh. The plot is ok but did not manage to make me care abt any of the characters.
Wow.
Two Cones-o'-Shame in a row!
I might need glasses or a brain cleanse or something.
Ok, so, had someone just followed this advice:
this story would have been a whole lot shorter.
And I think that would have been an improvement.
For everyone else who read this, the story was taut, filled with suspension and mysterious doings and snakes.
For me, this was a 90's-flavored story and not because half the book took place in the '90's. Rather, it seemed a tad ridiculous with lots of plot holes spanned by bridges made of convenience, not unlike a Stephanie Plum book or early Grisham works. Salacious plot points such as gay men, unhealthy religious practices, and black people abound! GASP! Spoiler alert: Because '90's, lol. Thank goodness we've come such a long way since then. Spoiler alert:
The characters are all fairly flat, from emotionless, going-through-the-motions, not-very-perceptive Kim to cartoonishly self-centered Jack and Molly whose child goes missing to the lonely sheriff who just wants to settle down with a nice woman to the smitten love interest who will give everything up for A Man to the charismatic and crazy religious leader. The characters you imagined when you read those descriptions are the characters you get in this book.
I had questions that went unanswered. I mentally corrected the Australianisms used in Kentucky dialect, such as bitumen for asphalt, hung off for hung up/rang off, and "hot gos," which I don't think was a term we were using in the '90's, though maybe they totally did in Kentucky. But mostly, I had picked apart the entire premise from the start: If your step-daughter, the one you've raised since babyhood and love as your very own, is about to step into danger, would you really keep from her vital information because it was your dead spouse's last wish that you do so? You'd really let your beloved child walk into a nest of vipers (actually, rattlesnakes) in order to honor the wishes of a dead person?
I guess this was ok. It went on way too long and I didn't enjoy it but I wasn't tempted to throw it off a cliff at the end.
I wish I could have read that exciting thriller everyone else read.
Two Cones-o'-Shame in a row!
I might need glasses or a brain cleanse or something.
Ok, so, had someone just followed this advice:
this story would have been a whole lot shorter.
And I think that would have been an improvement.
For everyone else who read this, the story was taut, filled with suspension and mysterious doings and snakes.
For me, this was a 90's-flavored story and not because half the book took place in the '90's. Rather, it seemed a tad ridiculous with lots of plot holes spanned by bridges made of convenience, not unlike a Stephanie Plum book or early Grisham works. Salacious plot points such as gay men, unhealthy religious practices, and black people abound! GASP! Spoiler alert:
Spoiler
The black man dies.Spoiler
The gay man gets to live happily ever after! Progress!The characters are all fairly flat, from emotionless, going-through-the-motions, not-very-perceptive Kim to cartoonishly self-centered Jack and Molly whose child goes missing to the lonely sheriff who just wants to settle down with a nice woman to the smitten love interest who will give everything up for A Man to the charismatic and crazy religious leader. The characters you imagined when you read those descriptions are the characters you get in this book.
I had questions that went unanswered. I mentally corrected the Australianisms used in Kentucky dialect, such as bitumen for asphalt, hung off for hung up/rang off, and "hot gos," which I don't think was a term we were using in the '90's, though maybe they totally did in Kentucky. But mostly, I had picked apart the entire premise from the start: If your step-daughter, the one you've raised since babyhood and love as your very own, is about to step into danger, would you really keep from her vital information because it was your dead spouse's last wish that you do so? You'd really let your beloved child walk into a nest of vipers (actually, rattlesnakes) in order to honor the wishes of a dead person
Spoiler
whose opinion, as it turned out, didn't count for much anywayI guess this was ok. It went on way too long and I didn't enjoy it but I wasn't tempted to throw it off a cliff at the end.
I wish I could have read that exciting thriller everyone else read.
dark
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
About a 3.5, I enjoyed it, but maybe lost points because I guessed one of the twists about halfway through. The final twist was a good one though.
My only complaint was AGAIN with the homophobic language/slurs, Christian white? I found it added nothing to the story but to paint the religious nuts as even worse people. It was kind of annoying that in BOTH of his new books, he quotes the part from Leviticus, the exact same quote. I think someone needs to tell him that his gay tropes are tired.
My only complaint was AGAIN with the homophobic language/slurs, Christian white? I found it added nothing to the story but to paint the religious nuts as even worse people. It was kind of annoying that in BOTH of his new books, he quotes the part from Leviticus, the exact same quote. I think someone needs to tell him that his gay tropes are tired.
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
N/A
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
Pretty easy to read, but some of the details were a bit too creepy for this reader. I guess I just don't like snakes.