New favorite book opening!
I never meant to kill my brother. I never set out to hate my father. I never dreamed I would bury my own son. Nor could I have imagined that I would betray the childhood friend who saved my life, or win a Pulitzer prize for telling a lie. All these things I have done, yet most people I know would call me an honorable man.
Caught my attention right away.
This book had a lot of twists and turns, general intrigue and —-very unfortunate adult content. I’ve never read this author before and he really held my attention in some of the opening action sequences—which are SO difficult to write. For example, a sequence of swimming across the freezing Mississippi River with a group of friends on a careless dare was truly riveting. The sequences relaying his experiences as a war journalist were also captivating and felt authentic.
Unfortunately, because the content involves a betrayal (an extramarital affair) the content descends and there were a lot of parts I didn’t read. I felt like the really compelling layers of inter-connected mysteries could have existed without that. Disappointing. The final question of “who fathered this child” can be asked without showing the reader.
