I borrowed this ebook novel when I had nothing better to do. It is set in the 1970s Arkansas, although written by a Brit. By 20 pages in, I was thoroughly confused- there are several children missing including a one-eyed boy named Patches, who thinks he is a pirate. A school photographer becomes a prime suspect and several graves are eventually found. Then suddenly Patches is driving with a girl to the photographer’s home which has been burned down.
This is written entirely in short sentences which seem like follow no logical sequence, with what to me seem to be numerous spelling and grammatical errors. There is no time sequence given for the disjointed bits of dialogue.
After 74 chapters and only 200 pages, I gave up trying to follow a plot if there is one. For me this book reads like the too vivid imagination of a schizophrenic. It seems that everyone who has reviewed it disagrees, but so be it.
I am not counting this book as one I read nor will I give it a rating as I only read less than 1/3 of it.
Thanks, but no thanks, Kirkus Reviews.
The Passionate Reader 
agree that you can’t properly give a book a rating if you didn’t finish it
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