A review by brokenrecord
Miracle Creek by Angie Kim

4.0

This is not a genre I tend to read a lot of, but I ended up enjoying this a lot (granted, I do tend to be into courtroom/legal dramas, so I guess it shouldn't be too surprising that I got into this). It was very well-written and sucked me in pretty much immediately. The mystery was interesting, and I didn't guess exactly what had happened before it was revealed. I'm not sure how I feel about how autism was treated here (such as how the protestors of the treatment were basically just saying that autistic people don't need to be "cured," but they only ever seem to be depicted in a negative light, or how the book seems to have more sympathy for the caretakers of the autistic children than the children themselves at times), and I don't feel informed enough to say one way or another, which is why I didn't rate this any higher. I'd like to see reviews from more people on the autism spectrum to weigh in on that element. But this was definitely written well enough that I'd check out more from Angie Kim in the future.