![]() ![]() Except it really was a great hook and I wanted to wriggle on it a little so I persisted. It’s a great hook that was never going to need much to sell it, yet I felt like everything in the opening was too bright and too loud and trying too hard to tell ‘look how dramatic this is!’ ![]() It’s the hook the rest of the book wriggles on: a teenage girl from rural Idaho drives for five hours, crossing a State line, to the FBI field office in Seattle, asks for agent Lucy Thorne by name, confesses to having murdered a twelve-year-old boy, explains that the boy’s body has a bible verse carved into it and then refuses to say more. The only thing I didn’t like about ‘Her Final Words’ was the opening. Tightly plotted and tensely told mystery that kept me guessing and gave me a strong sense of a place and its people. ![]()
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