The Wayside

The Wayside - Caroline Wolff

A slow burn academia read with some psychological thrill.

Kate is struggling with the suicide of her son so she steps into his life at his college so she can figure out why it happened but the more she learns, the more she understands she didn't know her son like she thought she did.

It was super slow. I am not a fan of thrillers that move at a snail's pace. It was a lot of Kate's grief driving the book and the things she does while trying to come to terms with her son's death. I don't think this book was bad, I think it is mis-genred. Had it been geared as a literary fiction because it was pretty much character driven and that I could have reconciled myself with. The second you say, thriller, I am expecting a moderate pace.

The storyline was great and had it been faster and less about Kate and more about the actual timeline of her son... I would have been singing its praises. It missed its mark and the ending was bizarre.

3.5 stars