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Bitter River (2013)

by Julia Keller(Favorite Author)

3.58 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1250003490 (ISBN13: 9781250003492)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Minotaur Books

series

Bell Elkins

review 1: I picked this book up up at the library and there was no indication on the exterior of the paperback that Bitter River is the second in a series. I thought it was odd that there were references to rather dramatic events that happened prior, so I figured I missed something, like book one. I do think I will go back and read the first one. I enjoyed this book, but it did not race along like mysteries often do. It felt more like a novel that had a mystery woven within its pages. I liked the feeling of the town and the people. I am from a small town and I have both loved and hated "home" and I understand the deep desire to rewrite my own story as an adult among the ghosts of my past. I would give this book 3.5 stars. Not for the mystery, but because of the ... moretown.
review 2: Something felt . . . I dunno, choppy, maybe, about this book? Like a variety of stories were pasted together with not enough glue? Maybe it's because I didn't know it was the second in a series and read it as a stand-alone. Also felt like most of the characters' choices/conversations/other interactions weren't believable. Plus, I seem to have accidentally wandered into a West Virginia mystery sub-genre of late. Maybe I can take only so many descriptions of rundown trailers and pain pill addicts before I start to feeling like I'm reading the day's local news instead of a novel? Probably won't read anything else by Ms Keller. But, hey -- let's give her credit, she has written books instead of just reading and critiquing them! And I've read worse. Much, much worse. So, there's that. less

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