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A review by alstrath
House on Fire by Bonnie Kistler
4.0
Two teens, step-siblings, driving home one rainy Friday night. Twelve hours later one is dead and the other is charged with manslaughter.
This book drops the main story into the reader's lap right in the beginning of the book.
Where does your loyalty lie in a blended family? Ours, yours, mine?
Will you believe anything in order to save your son?
Do you refuse to believe anything in order to preserve your daughter's memory?
Leigh and Peter have to try untangle the mess their blended family landed in when his son and her daughter were involved in an accident where Kip was driving, or was he, and Chrissy ended up dead a few hours later.
The bones of the story are laid out early on in the book. As the story progresses "flesh" is added to these bones.
There are various side stories interwoven throughout this book, which first make you wonder what their purpose is. As the story starts wrapping up in the end these side stories form the final fabric that meshes the whole story together.
I didn't think there was much to this story that could be developed further as the whole scene was laid out in the beginning, but the author really surprised me with the various twists and plotlines. This is definitely a book that can be reread to catch the little bits of story that you may have overlooked first time around.
This book drops the main story into the reader's lap right in the beginning of the book.
Where does your loyalty lie in a blended family? Ours, yours, mine?
Will you believe anything in order to save your son?
Do you refuse to believe anything in order to preserve your daughter's memory?
Leigh and Peter have to try untangle the mess their blended family landed in when his son and her daughter were involved in an accident where Kip was driving, or was he, and Chrissy ended up dead a few hours later.
The bones of the story are laid out early on in the book. As the story progresses "flesh" is added to these bones.
There are various side stories interwoven throughout this book, which first make you wonder what their purpose is. As the story starts wrapping up in the end these side stories form the final fabric that meshes the whole story together.
I didn't think there was much to this story that could be developed further as the whole scene was laid out in the beginning, but the author really surprised me with the various twists and plotlines. This is definitely a book that can be reread to catch the little bits of story that you may have overlooked first time around.