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Sorry to Disrupt the Peace by Patty Yumi Cottrell was published March 17, 2017. It is the winner of the Barnes and Noble Discover Award. The book centers around thirty-one-year-old, Helen Moran, whose brother has just committed suicide. Helen goes back home to “investigate” his reason behind taking his own life. As she steps into her unnamed brother’s life, readers can begin to understand how unraveled the main character is from the inside. With the book’s progression, Helen puts her brother’s life under a microscope and learns that he wasn’t the person she thought he was. In fact, he’s nothing like she thought he was. She examines his relationships with other people such as their adopted parent’s, his friends, and even their sibling bond.

Patty Yumi Cottrell is the author everyone wants to be. Right away, readers can notice the risks she takes with her novel. For starters, there are not quotation marks whenever a character speaks. At first, I was kind of iffy about this. However, as it began to be clear why, I started to love that aspect. Helen is telling the story about herself not her brother. She’s the type of main character you love to hate. With her take on the story, the novel adapts with a signature style. Along with Cottrell’s writing style, it’s not surprise I fell in love at the fist sentence. But, that doesn’t mean every book is perfect.

The ball immediately starts rolling from the first to last page. However, in the middle, I have to admit that it did drag. I found myself putting the book down for long periods of time. There comes a point in the novel where the character just doesn’t do anything interesting. The plot seems to drag along until it just doesn’t anymore. Once it picks up again, readers are unable to put it down.

I would rate this book 9.5/10 due to the stalled plot. Other than that, I loved the book completely with my heart and soul. The novel embraces readers in a way I myself haven’t felt in a long time. It reminded me why I love reading.

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What was the concept of time anyway, especially to these two ghost-figures and their grieving? A few moments passed in silence and I wondered how many phantoms were in the living room with us that night. It was an appropriate question because as I was sitting on the three-person wicker couch, I started to formulate a hypothesis that their grieving was the fourth, yet-un-spoken presence in the living room and no one had acknowledged it.

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