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A review by aqsa_ayman
Miracle Creek by Angie Kim
3.0
This book raises some interesting questions about the morality/irony of trying to do the best for your children and how that can spill over into damaging them instead. There were dark thought processes that I found very painful to explore for personal reasons, but it was liberating in a way, to hear them.
I will say though that in general the author’s style doesn’t suit me, as there’s a lot of meandering with the thoughts of each character over the same points. Maybe that is true to how we agonise over our problems, but it makes for a dull read in book format.
There was a fantastic interview at the end of my edition and it surprised me how many elements of Angie Kim’s life is in this book, and the context she gave as well as the interviewer/editor’s excellent questions really bring some of the duller parts of the book to life (I do wish the writing alone could have done that). Anyway, I appreciated her describing the need to maintain the “whydunnit” and “howdunnit” for as long as possible, even if the whodunnit became clear. I also appreciated the visual of her at her tiny closet desk with all her research keeping timelines in check above her…best of luck to this author in her second book.
I will say though that in general the author’s style doesn’t suit me, as there’s a lot of meandering with the thoughts of each character over the same points. Maybe that is true to how we agonise over our problems, but it makes for a dull read in book format.
There was a fantastic interview at the end of my edition and it surprised me how many elements of Angie Kim’s life is in this book, and the context she gave as well as the interviewer/editor’s excellent questions really bring some of the duller parts of the book to life (I do wish the writing alone could have done that). Anyway, I appreciated her describing the need to maintain the “whydunnit” and “howdunnit” for as long as possible, even if the whodunnit became clear. I also appreciated the visual of her at her tiny closet desk with all her research keeping timelines in check above her…best of luck to this author in her second book.