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A review by lizaroo71
The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley by Hannah Tinti
5.0
Tinti is a writer that can create characters that are realistic because they are complex and flawed and human.
Loo is twelve when we first meet her and her father has given her a gun for her birthday. She details the nuances of learning how to shoot at a target and these details come up time and again throughout the novel.
Samuel Hawley is a man that has a criminal past and has made some tough decisions in his life. He has raised Loo the best he can, but in interspersed chapters, we get Hawley's backstory and what has lead him to have twelve bullets in his body.
I like that these characters are flawed and make mistakes and I still found myself caring about the choices they made and wanting things to turn out well for everyone, but always having a knot in my stomach telling me perhaps that wasn't going to happen.
This book is definitely dark in tone, but there are slivers of light in Loo's young romance and the environmental issues raised in the fishing community and the love Hawley has for Loo's mother Lily. I found myself always hoping for the best even as Hawley was loading some bullets in a gun and contemplating his next move.
Loo is twelve when we first meet her and her father has given her a gun for her birthday. She details the nuances of learning how to shoot at a target and these details come up time and again throughout the novel.
Samuel Hawley is a man that has a criminal past and has made some tough decisions in his life. He has raised Loo the best he can, but in interspersed chapters, we get Hawley's backstory and what has lead him to have twelve bullets in his body.
I like that these characters are flawed and make mistakes and I still found myself caring about the choices they made and wanting things to turn out well for everyone, but always having a knot in my stomach telling me perhaps that wasn't going to happen.
This book is definitely dark in tone, but there are slivers of light in Loo's young romance and the environmental issues raised in the fishing community and the love Hawley has for Loo's mother Lily. I found myself always hoping for the best even as Hawley was loading some bullets in a gun and contemplating his next move.