A review by snowmaiden
After Silence by Jonathan Carroll

4.0

I loved the beginning of this book so much. Jonathan Carroll is able to create characters that seem completely real, so much so that you swear they must all be based on people he knows. When it's just telling the story of a lonely bachelor who meets a single mother and her adorable 10-year-old son, this book is great. But then things have to get all complicated, and then there's a confusing time jump, and then in the last few pages something supernatural happens with zero foreshadowing. The whole thing is like watching a train jump the tracks and plummet into the ocean. But I still had to give it four stars, because the first half of the book is just that good.