David Preston itibaren Makotelo, Kenya

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2018-04-25 06:41

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Secrets of what happened in the woods the night of a hurricane in 1979 come back to haunt four adults when they reunite after all these years for the death of one of their friends. Needless to say, this was a very sad, dark, depressing, mystery. The author told the story from the perspectives of many characters in the first narrative switching between past and present. Doing so actually gave a lot of insight into nature of each person and made for a rich, deeper story. You learn so much about their lives and how each of them viewed the same situations and people differently. It seemed like they knew the truth about each other and the real person they were when they didin't know the same themselves. The group of five kids that used to play together in the woods were three brothers (Sean, Tim, and Go-Go in chronological age) and two girls that were best friends (Gwen and Mickey). Gwen is the pretty girl with a father who is a doctor and a stay at home mother. The boys's father jumps from job to job because of his hot temper and their mother tries to keep up the house with no help. Sean is the cautious one, Tim is jealous of Sean, and Go-Go is weak and fragile. Mickey doesn't have as much money as the others and she doesn't have a stable family life. Her mother's boyfriend acts as her step-father so she has a lot of anger and resentment. A lot of this attitude is what leads the group to seek adventure in the woods which becomes the root of their secrets. The thing I like most about this book was learning how people really see and feel about each other. How one best friend sees and really feels about the other. How a wife sees and really feels about her husband. How parents really see and feel about their kids. It is scary how much people keep their real feelings hidden. To me, those were the most interesting secrets. Even though the book was leading up to the reveal of the big secrets, these secrets were interwoven all throughout the story. And in the end, you are supposed to believe that some secrets should stay that way because they will only hurt others and that revealing them only absolves you. The author said in the afterword that this was a very personal book for her and her most autobiographical. I wonder if this is her way of revealing her own secrets so they won't hurt others but will absolve her.

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