![]() ![]() ![]() The narrator is the same woman from Lauren Groff's Fates and Furies - Julia Whelan, and she is really, really good. Highly recommend - especially if Lehane's more noir stuff set in rain-soaked, scruffy Boston neighborhoods are not your cup of beer. This book is a rip-snorting blast right till the end. And, sir, neither Mount Holyoke nor Smith Colleges are "girls' schools." They are womens' colleges. Lehane does a decent job with a female protagonist, although his portrait of the woman's mother is grossly one-dimensional amid a sea of better-drawn male characters. The reviews I've read don't exactly contain spoilers, but it's better not to address the second half of the book to prevent the full-on ramp up of suspense that grabs you there and pulses through till the end. ![]() Dennis Lehane goes all literary on us! But don't worry - he does bring a little bit of his classic noir (a feminine version of noir, at that) home for us in the last third of the book. ![]()
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