Thanks to NetGalley, the publisher and author for the opportunity to read and review this book!
This book takes you down many paths and leaves you with many feelings and mysteries unsolved - and the writing style will probably cause some to give up reading. But I definitely think it's worth sticking it out, even though the ending won't be given to you wrapped with a bow.
The book is set in Northeast Ohio and involves two mysteries - one in the 1980s and the other in more present time. The first mystery involves a grisly murder scene - two married couples all shot. Their children, Dustin and his two older twin cousins, Wave and Kate, were outside sleeping in a camper. However, there's even more behind the scene. Dustin was a very gullible, malleable child whom his cousins enjoyed exploiting. Dustin's family had adopted Rusty, a troubled youth from an abusive background. He was accused of committing the crime and Dustin and Kate's testimony was what put him behind bars. But was it true? How can we know what the truth is?
In the present-day, Dustin is now a psychologist raising his own teenage boys with a wife who is ill from cancer. A patient comes to him with the second mystery - which involves a series of college-age students who seem to be heavily intoxicated, leave their friends, and are discovered later drowned in a nearby body of water. The police dismiss these deaths as "death by stupidity" - they were drunk, these things happen. But do they? This patient becomes Dustin's only friend and they join together to find out what happened to these boys.
The writing style is very unique - adding to all the mystery. There are text bubbles, pages written in columns that you have to flip back and forth to read, and sentences that just stop - showing how Dustin had the tendency to speak.
Quite the ride!
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