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A review by fern_mollett
The Sisters of Glass Ferry by Kim Michele Richardson
1.0
This book was really disjointed. We are constantly hopping around in time and it's sometimes easy to get lost in the sequence of events. Sometimes these jumps in time are marked with dates, sometimes not. Sometimes we have flashbacks within flashbacks.
This book is also terribly slow and tangential. We are constantly being taken away from the main story (the disappearance of sister Patsy) so we can read Flannery rambling about her father's liquor business (which hasn't been relevant to their lives in decades).
The synopsis really puts an emphasis on the sisters' father, a man who owned & operated a distillery, and there's a lot of pages where Flannery (the younger & surviving twin) talks about her fathers business, but honestly, it's mostly irrelevant to the story. Flannery doesn't work in a distillery now, she's a school teacher. Whiskey hasn't been a major factor in their lives since their father's death when the twins were 13. Reading about the whiskey and the people who their father worked with, feels like reading an entirely different, unrelated story. I had the same feeling when reading about Flannery's abusive husband, the death of her children & her stay in a mental institution. Character-building filler that didn't really have much to do with the main story.
We when get the opportunity to read about the main story, sometimes from Patsy's pov, sometimes Flannery's, it takes pages to cover maybe two hours worth of events. Patsy is driving the Mercury (wrecklessly, and eventually into the River) for 3 separate chapters.
A few random things were brought up throughout the book, things I thought would surely turn into juicy plots, but never did. Lots of questions unanswered, wondering why they were brought up in the first place? Then, randomly, at the end these plots are tied up. I have seen this same issue in every book of Richardson's that I have read. Random plots that don't really have any business being in this book. Like she stoll people, events, and details from an unfinished work and shoved em into this book. The last 40 pages of the book have literally nothing to do with the main plot (Patsy's disappearnce & death). You could literally stop at 218, and be fine.
I tell ya. I just hated the ending. Flannery has A MILLION chances to right wrongs, bring peace to her grieving mother, and close her sister's cold case, and just doesn't....because. The ending had me screaming in my pillow, I was so frustrated
Update: yall. I slept on it and I am even more annoyed with the ending. This woman held onto the secrets of Patsy's disappearnce for decades, refused her mother the single scrap of comfort she could give her (the pearls) for no reason and then had the audacity to go speak to the state trooper 40 YEARS AFTER THE CASE WAS OPENED to "finally close the cold case" with zero actual evidence. Flannery has an old spent bullet from a .38 she can say Hollis was carrying, and can say they were drunk and that's it. Both of those things though AREN'T REAL EVIDENCE. Circumstantial at best. We KNOW someone shot the gun, finding the bullet on the ground next to Hollis is not proof that he shot the gun? Hell, even Hollis doesn't know the WHOLE truth, cause he got knocked out. Flannery staying quiet for 60 years helped ZERO people.
I know I shouldn't be this bothered, but it's just really getting under my skin.
This book is also terribly slow and tangential. We are constantly being taken away from the main story (the disappearance of sister Patsy) so we can read Flannery rambling about her father's liquor business (which hasn't been relevant to their lives in decades).
The synopsis really puts an emphasis on the sisters' father, a man who owned & operated a distillery, and there's a lot of pages where Flannery (the younger & surviving twin) talks about her fathers business, but honestly, it's mostly irrelevant to the story. Flannery doesn't work in a distillery now, she's a school teacher. Whiskey hasn't been a major factor in their lives since their father's death when the twins were 13. Reading about the whiskey and the people who their father worked with, feels like reading an entirely different, unrelated story. I had the same feeling when reading about Flannery's abusive husband, the death of her children & her stay in a mental institution. Character-building filler that didn't really have much to do with the main story.
We when get the opportunity to read about the main story, sometimes from Patsy's pov, sometimes Flannery's, it takes pages to cover maybe two hours worth of events. Patsy is driving the Mercury (wrecklessly, and eventually into the River) for 3 separate chapters.
A few random things were brought up throughout the book, things I thought would surely turn into juicy plots, but never did. Lots of questions unanswered, wondering why they were brought up in the first place? Then, randomly, at the end these plots are tied up. I have seen this same issue in every book of Richardson's that I have read. Random plots that don't really have any business being in this book. Like she stoll people, events, and details from an unfinished work and shoved em into this book. The last 40 pages of the book have literally nothing to do with the main plot (Patsy's disappearnce & death). You could literally stop at 218, and be fine.
I tell ya. I just hated the ending. Flannery has A MILLION chances to right wrongs, bring peace to her grieving mother, and close her sister's cold case, and just doesn't....because. The ending had me screaming in my pillow, I was so frustrated
Update: yall. I slept on it and I am even more annoyed with the ending. This woman held onto the secrets of Patsy's disappearnce for decades, refused her mother the single scrap of comfort she could give her (the pearls) for no reason and then had the audacity to go speak to the state trooper 40 YEARS AFTER THE CASE WAS OPENED to "finally close the cold case" with zero actual evidence. Flannery has an old spent bullet from a .38 she can say Hollis was carrying, and can say they were drunk and that's it. Both of those things though AREN'T REAL EVIDENCE. Circumstantial at best. We KNOW someone shot the gun, finding the bullet on the ground next to Hollis is not proof that he shot the gun? Hell, even Hollis doesn't know the WHOLE truth, cause he got knocked out. Flannery staying quiet for 60 years helped ZERO people.
I know I shouldn't be this bothered, but it's just really getting under my skin.