Title: Bang then a whimper
Product review: Chalk it up to to having read too many stellar reviews or having spent the summer talking myself into reading a book about a child raped and murdered, but now that I am finished, I admit, I am disappointed.In some eerie ways, the best of the book rests in its first few chapters. These are lucid, and raw and painfully descriptive--the murder, the early mourning, the landscape...As time moves on, however, the book devolves into an odd light touch. Susie lilts from place to place, person to person, commenting on their behaviors and actions. While you sense her longing to be back there in the thick of it, as a reader, you're not so certain you want to be there.Sometimes, you feel angst and sympathy, even empathy for the characters, but everyone is so lightly painted. It is hard to grasp on to something worth caring about for more than a moment or two. ...
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