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A review by alexcarbonneau
This Dark Road to Mercy by Wiley Cash
5.0
What a beautiful, poignant novel.
This novel was supposed to be everything I am NOT attracted to, i.e. a twelve years old narrator (one out of the 3 narrators), not even 300 pages, which most of the time end up being novels where the background isn't properly set up or where the reader is left on his/her appetite when starting to connect with the characters. It was also a lot of the things I like to read, i.e. grit-lit with a southern background, vengeance, bad guy running after a ton load of money and characters seeking redemption.
My god was I wrong about a lot of things.
I ended up looking forward for the parts of the book narrated by Easter Quillbi. A wonderfully crafted 12 year-old girl who plays mother to her younger sister and her biological father that does all the wrong things when trying to do right to his daughters.
With a dangerous blood thirsty killer running after them, out for revenge and the money Wade stole , This Dark Road To Mercy has a Cormac McCarthy / J Todd Scott feeling to it.
I'm starting this one for the beginning right now.
This novel was supposed to be everything I am NOT attracted to, i.e. a twelve years old narrator (one out of the 3 narrators), not even 300 pages, which most of the time end up being novels where the background isn't properly set up or where the reader is left on his/her appetite when starting to connect with the characters. It was also a lot of the things I like to read, i.e. grit-lit with a southern background, vengeance, bad guy running after a ton load of money and characters seeking redemption.
My god was I wrong about a lot of things.
I ended up looking forward for the parts of the book narrated by Easter Quillbi. A wonderfully crafted 12 year-old girl who plays mother to her younger sister and her biological father that does all the wrong things when trying to do right to his daughters.
With a dangerous blood thirsty killer running after them, out for revenge and the money Wade stole , This Dark Road To Mercy has a Cormac McCarthy / J Todd Scott feeling to it.
I'm starting this one for the beginning right now.