This book was about sisters, one buys a Bait & Barbecue shop in small town Missouri on eBay, and the other dreams of college but feels responsible for her sister.

The story covered a lot of ground and had a lot of aspects. Family, acceptance, community, relationships, materialism. It was all tied up in the end with a tidy bow and a happily ever after.

The most annoying part of this book were the continuity errors and the repetition. The editor could of done a lot better of a job.

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This is a strange book. Mostly, it was hard reading and boring. But then, the authors note at the end mentioned Amelia Earhart’s famous flight, and the rumor that it was actually a recognizance mission for the government.

This, after the book ends with the main character about to go off to Germany, in the late 1930’s, after being in contact with FDR’s people to have a “look around at cocktail parties and let us know what you hear.”

What? Really?

Was she saying that her character, on an errant mission from the government, never returned home?

** spoilers ** I’m not entirely sure what I was expecting, but this certainly wasn’t it.

The phrase on the back was something like “How far would you go to hold on to the hope of love?” and that, in itself, I kind of fancied. People pull a lot of crazy for the hope of love.

But, in the end, the entire query was about a perfect marriage, with perfect kids and a perfect house… and a fucking coma. And then? The comatose person woke up and the perfect life continued.

I’ll be damned. No…more
I’m not entirely sure what I was expecting, but this certainly wasn’t it.

The phrase on the back was something like “How far would you go to hold on to the hope of love?” and that, in itself, I kind of fancied. People pull a lot of crazy for the hope of love.  All kinds of denial and self disillusion.  But he says he loves me!  And he’ll never do it again!  All to carry on with the HOPE of love.

But, in the end, the entire query was about a perfect marriage, with perfect kids and a perfect house… and a fucking coma. And then? The comatose person woke up and the perfect life continued.

I’ll be damned. Not at all what I was expecting.

I thought the premise of the book was very good. A 14 year old girl wakes up one morning and her entire family is gone. The investigation turns up nothing and the story takes place twenty-five years later.

I also thought the narrative style was quite good. Even though the story was essentially about the woman who’s family vanished, it was narrated by her husband. I thought that was quite good, and showed a different aspect of a story than the run of the mill thrillers out there.

I liked it.

This was a strange book for me… although I liked the intimacy of the writing style, and the feeling of getting to know the character… I never came to like, nor care about, said character.

It was well written, however.