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A review by cnorbury
Ruin Falls by Jenny Milchman
4.0
*Spoiler alert* key plot piece mentioned in first paragraph.
A taut, fast-paced story with good plot twists and just enough information given or discovered at key points to keep one guessing but following the story well. The MC is well-developed, sympathetic, but also flawed in that she chose to submit to her husband's peculiarities rather than stand up for herself. She could have at least examined her life with him close enough to understand that he might do something rash and seemingly unplanned like he did *Spoiler alert*...with her children.
She pieces together the facts in an efficient manner, with minimal help from the police, but in very believable fashion. Set in Wedeskyull, NY, a small Adirondack Mountains town, this is Ms. Milchman's second novel set in that location. She subtly refers to the heroine of her first book, uses another first book character in a key role in this book, and is setting up readers for a series where the town provides the stories and characters interact with each other from book to book, with some new and important characters taking center stage, whereas they may have been minor characters in previous books.
I'd rate this book and her first, Cover of Snow, psychological thrillers/suspense novels because the horror is mostly in the mind of the MC, but the urgency seems real.
A taut, fast-paced story with good plot twists and just enough information given or discovered at key points to keep one guessing but following the story well. The MC is well-developed, sympathetic, but also flawed in that she chose to submit to her husband's peculiarities rather than stand up for herself. She could have at least examined her life with him close enough to understand that he might do something rash and seemingly unplanned like he did *Spoiler alert*...with her children.
She pieces together the facts in an efficient manner, with minimal help from the police, but in very believable fashion. Set in Wedeskyull, NY, a small Adirondack Mountains town, this is Ms. Milchman's second novel set in that location. She subtly refers to the heroine of her first book, uses another first book character in a key role in this book, and is setting up readers for a series where the town provides the stories and characters interact with each other from book to book, with some new and important characters taking center stage, whereas they may have been minor characters in previous books.
I'd rate this book and her first, Cover of Snow, psychological thrillers/suspense novels because the horror is mostly in the mind of the MC, but the urgency seems real.