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Title: You’d Better Not Pyout Author: Nancy Pickard In: Wolfsbane and Mistletoe (Charlaine Harris & Toni L.P. Kelner) Rating Out of 5: 4 (Really good read!) My Bookshelves: Christmas, Vampires, Werewolves Dates read: 29th December 2019 Pace: Fast Format: Short story Publisher: Gollancz Year: 2008 5th sentence, 74th page: A silence descended on the strange scene.
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I finished these two books in the past few days. Not sure if I’ll write full reviews on one, the other, both, or neither, but I did want to post real quick with a few brief thoughts on each book.
Two very different reads, but both great.
The Book Thief is a heart-breaking, gut-wrenching, but fan-freaking-tastic read. A fictional representation of Hitler’s reign and the Nazi impact. A unique narrator and beautiful writing really bring the events to life.
Zusak transports readers right into the thick of Nazi Germany, but he does so under the cover of death who is the narrator. And if you think that sounds wonky, well, it is, but it is absolutely perfect and poetic in this book!
* ebook borrowed from the Johnson County, KS Public Library.
As for The Scent of Rain and Lightning, I’ve wanted to read Pickard for a while now. She’s a local author, the setting is a small town in KS (I’m a small town KS girl), and I’ve heard great reviews.
I wasn’t disappointed. Pickard grabbed me from the beginning in this one and she really never let go. The suspense and the pace really keep readers on their toes. I had a couple of guesses throughout the read, but turns out I was way wrong!!
* Paperback purchased from the Half-Price Book Store.
I will definitely be grabbing more books by both of these authors soon!
Don't ever let anybody tell you that happiness has to be earned.
Nancy Pickard - The Scent of Rain and Lightning
The Scent of Rain and Lightning by Nancy Pickard
Synopsis
One beautiful summer afternoon, from her bedroom window on the second floor, Jody Linder is unnerved to see her three uncles parking their pickups in front of her parents’ house—or what she calls her parents’ house, even though Jay and Laurie Jo Linder have been gone almost all of Jody’s life. “What is this fearsome thing I see?” the young high school English teacher whispers, mimicking Shakespeare. Polished boots, pressed jeans, fresh white shirts, Stetsons—her uncles’ suspiciously clean visiting clothes are a disturbing sign.
The three bring shocking news: The man convicted of murdering Jody’s father is being released from prison and returning to the small town of Rose, Kansas. It has been twenty-six years since that stormy night when, as baby Jody lay asleep in her crib, her father was shot and killed and her mother disappeared, presumed dead. Neither the protective embrace of Jody’s uncles nor the safe haven of her grandparents’ ranch could erase the pain caused by Billy Crosby on that catastrophic night. Now Billy Crosby has been granted a new trial, thanks in large part to the efforts of his son, Collin, a lawyer who has spent most of his life trying to prove his father’s innocence. As Jody lives only a few doors down from the Crosbys, she knows that sooner or later she’ll come face-to-face with the man who she believes destroyed her family. What she doesn’t expect are the heated exchanges with Collin. Having grown up practically side by side in this very small town, Jody and Collin have had a long history of carefully avoiding each other’s eyes. Now Jody discovers that underneath their antagonism is a shared sense of loss that no one else could possibly understand. As she revisits old wounds, startling revelations compel her to uncover the dangerous truth about her family’s tragic past.
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What first caught my attention was its title - or the word rain to be more precise. I got hooked and convinced to give this book a try after reading the first 3 paragraphs.
"Until she was twenty-six, Jody Linder felt suspicious of happiness.
She hated that about herself, because it tended to sour some otherwise pretty damn fine moments, but this was Rose, Kansas, after all. Only the year before, a pencil tornado had dropped down and killed three people only a few miles from her hometown. A tornado, when the sun was shining! In the winter, there were ice storms. In the summer, there were grass fires. At all times, people she knew went bankrupt, lost their homes, their ranches, their jobs. Or, they died just when you least expected them to. A person could, for instance, belong to a nice family living an ordinary life in a small town in the middle of nowhere and on some innocent Saturday night, violent men could drop i like those tornadoes and turn those cine people into the dead stars of a Truman Capote book. Such things happened. That wasn't paranoia. It was a terrible fact that Jody knew better than anybody - or at least better than anybody whose father had not been murdered when she was three years old and who mother had not disappeared the same night.
Such things happened, and she was proof of it."
Another thing that stood out was how the author was able to skillfully express multiple perspectives to the same issue while keeping to narration in the 3rd person. We were increasingly offered nuances and the truth via the opinions of the victims, the accused and his family, and the polarised reactions of the townsfolk. This reminds us of the value of attempting to understand and accept conflicting information in daily life.
The time jumps were also employed effectively to keep the reader in suspense while still ensuring that the whole story clicked together when being examined closely.
In short, this is an intriguing thriller packed with some twists and layered with multiple perspectives.
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