“What We Remember” Slow, slow, interesting but S L O W!
“What We Remember” by Michael Thomas Ford has an interesting premise and is written in an interesting way. Unfortunately, it didn’t work for me.
A Sheriff from a small town in New York is found dead, murdered. The book then takes various points of view both in the present and seven….or eight years ago when the man first went missing. Yeah, that’s one of the problems. Sometimes it was seven years – sometimes eight. Moving from the present to past, from character to character REALLY slowed the forward movement of the book.
Each of the man’s children, as well as his wife, COULD have killed the Sheriff and that’s why I kept reading. I had to find out who did it. I only managed to finish the book by skimming at least the last 50 pages. I had an idea who the killer was – and I was correct.
Beside the time-line that was off by a year – sometimes, I had a real problem with the ages of the adult children. One was married to the current Sheriff and he was…24! I’m sorry but I do not think there are many towns anywhere who want their chief law enforcement officer that young! I also hated the mother/wife. She was manipulative, mean and not a very nice woman! It’s darn hard to read about characters you hate.
There were a lot of lose threads that were never resolved and that bothered me – a lot. A great deal was made of the death of one woman, Rebecca, who was allegedly killed by an intruder with a shotgun blast to the face! It was such an obvious murder that I kept waiting for the author to tell us who killed her. He never did. Celeste the adult daughter was crazy in love with the town bad boy for most of the book, then turned around and married the man who would become Sheriff. Didn’t really make sense. There were several other cases but you get the point.
I’ve never read anything by this author before and probably won’t again based on this book. His writing was okay but not spectacular.
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