"It’s such a strange job I have, where life and death shake hands in the foyer."
Indeed, as a pastor, our narrator sees pretty much everything. Including his daughter washing her stained clothes the night of a murder.
With just 10 chapters to go on, I can say the story--an 18-year-old daughter of a preacher and a lawyer is accused of murdering an older man--is an interesting one, and the writing is better than I expected. I don't typically read novels in which religion plays a major role, but here it's done well, tastefully and our narrator is easy to understand and like. There were areas in which the chapters seemed stunted, or perhaps a paragraph or two belonged elsewhere, but I can certainly forgive that because Edvardsson does such a fine job of getting to the point. I love that I wasn't forced to read 20 pages describing the floor of the house or five paragraphs telling us how silver the spoon was.
Overall, I found myself wondering if Stella did it, so it's a book I'd definitely be interested in reading the rest of. (I was provided an early glimpse of the first 10 chapters of this from BookishFirst)
Indeed, as a pastor, our narrator sees pretty much everything. Including his daughter washing her stained clothes the night of a murder.
With just 10 chapters to go on, I can say the story--an 18-year-old daughter of a preacher and a lawyer is accused of murdering an older man--is an interesting one, and the writing is better than I expected. I don't typically read novels in which religion plays a major role, but here it's done well, tastefully and our narrator is easy to understand and like. There were areas in which the chapters seemed stunted, or perhaps a paragraph or two belonged elsewhere, but I can certainly forgive that because Edvardsson does such a fine job of getting to the point. I love that I wasn't forced to read 20 pages describing the floor of the house or five paragraphs telling us how silver the spoon was.
Overall, I found myself wondering if Stella did it, so it's a book I'd definitely be interested in reading the rest of. (I was provided an early glimpse of the first 10 chapters of this from BookishFirst)