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A review by jeanettesonya
The Way the Crow Flies by Ann-Marie MacDonald
5.0
I grew up in Huron County, about half an hour from Clinton, where Lynne Harper (12) was raped and murdered and Stephen Truscotte (14) was convicted and sentenced to death for it. The miscarriage of justice is a part of the cultural story there and as soon as I realized that this novel was inspired by that whole situation, I wanted to throw the book out. The Truscotte case and this book are all about evil getting away with evil and because I knew the case, I knew the outcome. And it was hard to read.
But, it was so well written. This book took up space in my brain in a way no other book has for months, maybe even years. I thought about it when I wasn’t reading and pages flew by when I was. The setting was so vivid, the characters so beautifully portrayed. Normally, I find that books that are more than 400 pages are entirely too long; but not this one. It was long, but I never found myself wishing for the end, slogging through in the hopes that things pick up.
Only complaint - the “r” word is thrown around a lot. True to the setting, perhaps, and also potentially indicative of the time in which it was written (2003 - almost 20 years old!) but it made me cringe a little and wonder: how would this be written today? Have we mostly removed that word from our literary vocabulary, or am I just being overly sensitive?
Anyway.
Highly recommended.
But, it was so well written. This book took up space in my brain in a way no other book has for months, maybe even years. I thought about it when I wasn’t reading and pages flew by when I was. The setting was so vivid, the characters so beautifully portrayed. Normally, I find that books that are more than 400 pages are entirely too long; but not this one. It was long, but I never found myself wishing for the end, slogging through in the hopes that things pick up.
Only complaint - the “r” word is thrown around a lot. True to the setting, perhaps, and also potentially indicative of the time in which it was written (2003 - almost 20 years old!) but it made me cringe a little and wonder: how would this be written today? Have we mostly removed that word from our literary vocabulary, or am I just being overly sensitive?
Anyway.
Highly recommended.