Tom answers “I won't have read this book if I had known...”

Deborah asked this question about In the Woods:

I won't have read this book if I had known that the first mystery would not be solved. I dislike intensely books that do this. What is your opinion?

Tom I totally agree. All books in all genres make a promise to the reader, whether scifi, mystery, romance, etc. This book broke it's promise.
If the autho…moreI totally agree. All books in all genres make a promise to the reader, whether scifi, mystery, romance, etc. This book broke it's promise.
If the author had wanted it to be a literary novel about the characters, with a mystery in the background that will remain unsolved, there are skills to do that. That wasn't the case with this. Mysteries are an art of reassurance, with elements of unsettling the reader. The beginning and most of the book set up the reader to care about the mystery. Then failed us. It's too bad, because there are many enjoyable and excellent elements to this book and it's writing.(less)

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