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This Dark Road To Mercy (2014)

by Wiley Cash(Favorite Author)

3.73 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0062088254 (ISBN13: 9780062088253)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

William Morrow

review 1: I give "This Dark Road to Mercy" a 3.5. I loved Wiley Cash's writing and will read him again. At first I was not so fond of Wade, since he had deserted his girls, but his persistence was making me change my mind. Then we meet Pruitt as a child and I liked him and felt sorry that he had such an abusive father. As it turns out, I wanted him dead when I saw what kind of person he turned into. Nice plot twists. I also liked that the story was being told through different narrators. It tells me what is going on in each of their minds.
review 2: Cash excels in portraying the relationships between children and the adults, especially fathers and daughters, and the relationship between the two sisters, which was moving and believable. However, his detour into the crime ... morenovel genre was uninspired. Minor missteps bothered me. Wade Chesterfield was supposedly born Chessman, a Jewish kid from South Carolina. Now I've known a lot of Jewish kids from the South, some of them even baseball fanatics from Charleston. But none of them talk like Wade, and they all certainly understood the racial significance of the confederate flag (even Wade's 12-year-old daughter objects when he buys her a raft with that emblem on it).The mother of Wade's daughters talks like a southern redneck--not at all the way her own mother in Alaska talks. And the geography sometimes is confusing: Wade's mother lived in Charleston, but later the novel has him and his daughters going from Myrtle Beach (where they had been before Charleston) to St. Louis--and driving on the Blue Ridge Parkway to Mt. Pisgah, which would be out of the way and very slow going. I listened to the book on audio. The accents were sometimes off base: Pisgah was pronounced Peesguh. Entertaining enough to keep me alert on a long car trip, but should have been edited more carefully. less

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