A review by daybreak1012
Mrs. Kimble by Jennifer Haigh

3.0

I don't know how I felt about this book. On one hand, it was a fast read. The words flowed, the story didn't lag, the pages turned with ease. But on the other, it was so sad. Not that there's anything that prevents a sad book from being really good. It wasn't that the characters were unlikable, though I didn't ever feel any sort of connection to any of them. I think it was that this book held no redemption. Even the ending, which I think may have tried to shine a little hope in their direction, still felt haunted. I also wish there had been more of an explanation of Ken Kimble. Why he was how he was, and not just a broken trail in his wake, littered with the people whose lives he had used up and discarded. Those two pieces left the book lacking for me, hollow like the inside of Ken Kimble.