The Mercy
2015 • 316 pages
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Suicide doesn't happen in good families. Never when both parents are mental health professionals. But it did. Convinced the suicide was her fault, psychologist Jessica LeFave is immobilized with guilt. And now her best friend, Camilla, who'd asked to speak with her last night and Jessica had put off, is found murdered, her body on an altar to Santa Muerte. While the police insist the death is one more drug-trafficking casualty, Jessica believes the murder is connected to Camilla's emotional instability or her work with child prostitutes in Mexico City's infamous La Merced. She collects her off-the-bubble sidekick lawyer and heads over the border where she teams up with the gorgeous and exciting 'revolutionary' she met on the weekend of Camilla's wedding. Jessica has no idea that her search will reveal a shocking secret and mark her for death.
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I had a hard time with this one. It normally doesn't take me two weeks to read a book.
It took me awhile to get into it for a couple of reasons. The biggest one is that there was some kind of formatting issue. (I'm not sure if it's because it is an advanced copy? I hope that's all it is.) I noticed that any sentences that started with words beginning with ‘th' were missing the ‘th.' For example, the would “though” would appear as “ough.” It made things hard to follow until I figured out what was going on.
I also felt that the first half of it was kind of jumpy and hard to follow. It picked up for me me in the last half of the book. Overall, it wasn't the book for me.
I will say one thing - I definitely didn't see the end coming!
