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4.5 stars
This book confused me, but that's okay. I had most of the mystery figured out a few steps before Nick, but I never did understand a few things.
First of all, what is a water station? I've never heard of such a thing before, and I was willing to just ignore it, but it gets mentioned a lot (22 times, to be exact). It sounds like a place, like a gas station? a deli? I googled, and ...more
One way to close a case is to solve it, you know.
The other way is to just step back and let things happen.
This book confused me, but that's okay. I had most of the mystery figured out a few steps before Nick, but I never did understand a few things.
First of all, what is a water station? I've never heard of such a thing before, and I was willing to just ignore it, but it gets mentioned a lot (22 times, to be exact). It sounds like a place, like a gas station? a deli? I googled, and ...more
I picked this one up solely based on the setting - a small town 20 miles outside of where I grew up in Texas (by the way, if anybody knows the author or editor, please inform them that Big Spring does not have an 's' at the end - drove me crazy throughout the book). The second person voice didn't really bother me, but it did make following the story line a bit cumbersome at times. The story seemed to shift abruptly, with little grace applied to the transitions. Not really my style of book, but e
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Oct 07, 2021
Sharon Dwyer
marked it as to-read
