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A review by pjaye_2000
The Kept by James Scott
4.0
Set in the late 1890s, Elspeth is a midwife who's been away working, she returns to their remote homestead to find her husband and 4 children have been murdered.
Only 12yo Caleb has survived and at first he thinks the killers have returned so he then shoots his mother by accident. He tends to her wounds and eventually she recovers enough so they then set out on foot in the snow to hunt down the murderers and exact revenge.
Elspeth has many secrets about herself and her children and they all come out during their journey.
It's definitely a very bleak book & you know there's going to be very little chance of a happy ending for anyone, however I found the ending still surprised me.
I thought it was well written and I got totally caught up in the story and what was going to happen to Elspeth & Caleb.
I listened to the audiobook and the narration by Kate Udall was excellent and suited the book perfectly.
Only 12yo Caleb has survived and at first he thinks the killers have returned so he then shoots his mother by accident. He tends to her wounds and eventually she recovers enough so they then set out on foot in the snow to hunt down the murderers and exact revenge.
Elspeth has many secrets about herself and her children and they all come out during their journey.
It's definitely a very bleak book & you know there's going to be very little chance of a happy ending for anyone, however I found the ending still surprised me.
I thought it was well written and I got totally caught up in the story and what was going to happen to Elspeth & Caleb.
I listened to the audiobook and the narration by Kate Udall was excellent and suited the book perfectly.