The Legacy

I'd seen the TV book club reviewing this and was dead keen to get stuck into it - however, once I began reading I found this book quite difficult to stick with and quite slow paced.

Written in a style whereby alternating chapters follow 2 different stories, one of Erica and Beth, 2 sisters returning to their grandmothers home which they have now inerited and the other following their great grandmother Caroline and her life in turn of the century American Oklahoma territory.

The chapters about Caroline were gipping and well written and I could have read a whole book about these characters. The chapters about the 2 sisters trying to come to terms with the dissapearance of their cousin Henry over 20 years earlier were a bit slow for my liking - by less than 100 pages in I'd already guessed the big reveal that was going to come at the end of the book and found myself skimming these chapters a little because they just didn't grip me.

I was a little dissapointed with this book - it promised a great deal but delivered less than I expected. It could be simply that having read the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo first and it being so jam packed with action that nothing was really going to match up.