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A review by mlwilson1021
The Current by Tim Johnston
3.0
Johnston sets up this novel well. Two college girls taking a spur of the moment road trip in order for one of the girls to see her dying father. The girls are assaulted at a truck stop, and after escaping find themselves sliding off the road near a river bank. Their car is bumped intentionally and their car goes into the icy river. One girl survives.
This book felt like it was trying to be Beartown by Fredrik Backman, but it missed the mark. The writer doesn’t develop any of the characters very well, and there are a string of them to keep track of. The story also jumps back and forth between two time periods, one current and the other ten years prior. Johnston gives no clues or notations at the beginning of a chapter to clue the reader in to the switch in timelines/plot. Last, I felt this book was longer than it needed to be, and yet the author didn’t really tie up some loose ends. There were several slow parts for a book that appears to be mostly plot-driven.
This book felt like it was trying to be Beartown by Fredrik Backman, but it missed the mark. The writer doesn’t develop any of the characters very well, and there are a string of them to keep track of. The story also jumps back and forth between two time periods, one current and the other ten years prior. Johnston gives no clues or notations at the beginning of a chapter to clue the reader in to the switch in timelines/plot. Last, I felt this book was longer than it needed to be, and yet the author didn’t really tie up some loose ends. There were several slow parts for a book that appears to be mostly plot-driven.