![]() The “Now” is in the third person, meaning the narrator is outside of Mary Grace but she is the only character to who we are privy to her thoughts. The “Then” is told from Mary Grace’s pov as an 11-year-old as if she were writing the book. The story is told through a “Now”, “Then” structure that includes different points of view. The events in 1995 seem to be repeating themselves in 2019 when another girl goes missing, and past and present collide for Mary Grace and the town. In 1995 two school girls went missing and both were connected to Mary Grace. Mary Grace is also very religious, sees portents and omens in the weather, and is obsessed with events that occurred when she was 11. She got the job after the previous sheriff died and as deputy, she was next in line. Mary Grace Dobbs is the newly sworn-in sheriff of her hometown of Redemption, Arkansas in 2019. This is a bad, Z-grade attempt to emulate Gillian Flynn, Tana French, and Paula Hawkins without understanding what makes those three so good. The story alternates between frustrating and non-sensical and the finale twists are eye-rolling. There is not one likable character, nor one that exhibits more than one dimension of personality. ![]() ![]() I’m not going to bury the lede, I deeply dislike this book. ![]()
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