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A review by jenbsbooks
Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger
3.0
This Tender Land was my first by this author, and I really liked it. This one ... as I waited a couple days to write my review, I struggled to remember what it had even been about. Perhaps not helped by my reading Dandelion Wine (different, but also a coming of age for a boy and his younger brother in a small town in years past) recently.
1st person/Past tense - all from the POV of young Frank, a 13-year old kid in 1961. Several deaths throughout the summer, starting with a young boy on the train tracks. Then a dead man out by the tracks (a little The Body vibes). The other deaths would be spoilers to discuss, although they are alluded to early one (the #, not who it would be) SPOILER sad when it was Ariel, and then Karl ... was there another? I felt like it turned into more of a murder mystery than I was expecting from the blurb. I wasn't super surprised at the reveal ...
Basic chapters (no headers), 39 of them, plus a prologue and epilogue. I didn't feel the need to stop and make notes (I had this in all three formats, went primarily with the audio). One instance of proFanity. It felt a little heavy on the religion (the father is a minister, there's some scripture quoting, the mother has some issues with religion too, the "ordinary grace" title tie-in). Other words I note: sneaked, preternatural, seldom, carom (that was a Wordle word not long ago).
I appreciated the discussion questions and the author interview (in audio) but it wasn't enough to bump this one up for me.
1st person/Past tense - all from the POV of young Frank, a 13-year old kid in 1961. Several deaths throughout the summer, starting with a young boy on the train tracks. Then a dead man out by the tracks (a little The Body vibes). The other deaths would be spoilers to discuss, although they are alluded to early one (the #, not who it would be) SPOILER
Basic chapters (no headers), 39 of them, plus a prologue and epilogue. I didn't feel the need to stop and make notes (I had this in all three formats, went primarily with the audio). One instance of proFanity. It felt a little heavy on the religion (the father is a minister, there's some scripture quoting, the mother has some issues with religion too, the "ordinary grace" title tie-in). Other words I note: sneaked, preternatural, seldom, carom (that was a Wordle word not long ago).
I appreciated the discussion questions and the author interview (in audio) but it wasn't enough to bump this one up for me.