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A review by pearloz
Where the Dead Sit Talking by Brandon Hobson
4.0
I wish this book had been longer--it felt like a prelude to life with the Troutt family. I want more of George, more of the bookie, and we get almost nothing about Mrs. Troutt (she forgets her shopping a list a lot, I guess?). Sequoya was a believable character but throughout the book, his thoughts and ideas strayed into violence/sadism (but how much of that is a broken mind and how much of it is being a 15 y/o w/ an unstable mother who burned your face on accident?), and you could feel the book sort of building up to something terrible and violent. I didn't suspect what was apparently inevitable; I really thought it was going to be Sequoya who did something.
I 100% blame the bookie for what happened. So she took a little money from your illegal gambling operation--because of that you're having her sent back to the institution? Didn't want your precious illegal operation getting sniffed at by the authorities? So much so that you're having the girl sent away? You said she didn't take that much...what a piece of shit. Suck it up, take the hit, move on.
The only real issue I had was that the book lapsed into overwriting in some instances--some characters spoke in a very...writerly way that strained credulity and took me right out of the book. Otherwise, this was a fine book.
I 100% blame the bookie for what happened. So she took a little money from your illegal gambling operation--because of that you're having her sent back to the institution? Didn't want your precious illegal operation getting sniffed at by the authorities? So much so that you're having the girl sent away? You said she didn't take that much...what a piece of shit. Suck it up, take the hit, move on.
The only real issue I had was that the book lapsed into overwriting in some instances--some characters spoke in a very...writerly way that strained credulity and took me right out of the book. Otherwise, this was a fine book.