Snowbound
Ratings9
Average rating2.9
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Ratings9
Average rating2.9
For Will Innis and his daughter, Devlin, the loss was catastrophic. Every day for the past five years, they wonder where she is, if she is—Will's wife, Devlin's mother—because Rachael Innis vanished one night during an electrical storm on a lonely desert highway, and suspected of her death, Will took his daughter and fled. Now, Will and Devlin live under different names in another town, having carved out a new life for themselves as they struggle to maintain some semblance of a family. When one night, a beautiful, hard-edged FBI agent appears on their doorstep, they fear the worst, but she hasn't come to arrest Will. “I know you're innocent,” she tells him, “because Rachael wasn't the first…or the last.” Desperate for answers, Will and Devlin embark on a terrifying journey that spans four thousand miles from the desert southwest to the wilds of Alaska, heading unaware into the heart of a nightmare, because the truth is infinitely worse than they ever imagined.
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Better than I thought it would be but then the end seemed to trail off...into false endings that only developed into additional false endings, rather than a ramp up into more. It was interesting. Not a deal breaker but it took off .25 stars.
I'll say this for it: It held my interest enough to get me through it. I read a good review of Crouch's latest, and when it wasn't available at the library, went with this one, which sounded intriguing. And intriguing it was, although in a very different way than I expected. My recurring thought throughout reading was, “How did this get published?” It read like a bad novelization of a bad thriller movie (think “Reindeer Games”). The plot moved along so quickly that there was never time to process why anything was happening. Motivations were completely untouched, and all of the characters felt unformed; not one seemed anything like a real person. The final twists in the last 2 chapters were so out of left field as to make one throw the book from a speeding car into a volcano under the ocean in a black hole. I guess what I'm saying is don't read this book.
