Thank you Netgalley, Macmillan Audio and St. Martin's Press for the gifted book!
by: Diane Chamberlain
narrated by: Susan Bennett
rating: really liked
"I knew what was going to happen in this book. I could have told you in chapter 1. I have known what was going to happen the whole time and it just happened and WAAAHHHH. It's still so sad. Actually it's worse than I expected it to be." That was what I told a friend on Marco Polo as I was listening to this book. This book is a powerful picture of the Civil Rights movement in North Carolina in 1965. It also has a timeline set in 2010, but that timeline is only there to add a harmony to the melody of the 1965 timeline. And knowing this is a book about the fight for civil rights and the main characters are both white women, you know that something is going to happen that will inevitably be heartbreaking, but the way the story is crafted you still feel the tensions mounting even though it is missing the ultimate element of suspense and surprise. I thought though that it needed that element of foreshadowing to not completely rip your heart out. And even though you can fill out the outline for the big plot point, you won't be able to fill in all the details by guessing and that is the secret sauce to this book, the little details.
Content Warning: Racism, Hate Crime, Miscarriage, Murder
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