Thursday, May 23, 2013

The Guilty One by Lisa Ballantyne

*** 3 stars

I've been reading this book for a long time! Not the fault of the book; I am not devoting much time to reading lately.  I hope to correct that with a mad book binge over a holiday weekend.

I liked, not loved, this book by a first time author.  The cover praise is quite extensive and may have slightly oversold the book.  It's a good read and an interesting character study but I didn't feel it contained many surprises.  (I hate to say too much to disclose what the nature of a surprise or surprises might be......)

I liked the back and forth in time construction; although I'm not sure all the parallels between the child Daniel and the child Sebastian were particularly well-formed.  It was interesting and kept me reading (off and on!)

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