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littletaiko 's review for:
All the Birds, Singing
by Evie Wyld
For me this book was all over the place. It started off slow as it was hard to get into the rhythm of the story, once I finally settled in and could see how the alternating chapters were working I enjoyed it. The main character is Jake, a woman sheep rancher who really prefers to be left alone. You know immediately that something bad happened to her, you just don't know what. Half of the story is told in the present day with the story moving forward and the other half is Jake's past told in reverse, going through the events that made her who she is today. This story telling device was interesting, and would have been even more so if it actually led up to something that made sense. The book just sort of ends with no real satisfactory explanation for either past or present. Yes, it does give you some sense of what happened, but it just didn't ring true or complete.