serendipitysbooks 's review for:

Gods in Alabama by Joshilyn Jackson

3.0

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Loved the opening line and the set up of the story - the surprise of discovering that the narrator was a murderer and then trying to figure out the why and the how. Some of the narrator's interactions with her boyfriend didn't ring true and/or troubled me, but then again I'm not a white woman returning to the south with a black boyfriend after a self-imposed exile of ten years, still afraid of being found out for a murder I committed as a teenager. There were enough twists and turns to keep me interested and I confess to not seeing the final resolution coming.