Review: Literate and literary entertainment
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 08 17, 2012
While I was not as totally wowed by the book as the other reviewers, I enjoyed how the author applied literary themes as the English teacher attempted to solve the murder of a young alumna of the high school. At least this main character involves the police ( in contrast to so many "clueless" amateur sleuths), and I admired the passion she portrayed for teaching as a profession. The main characters were reasonably well drawn--- the peripheral ones were not sufficiently fleshed out for me to relate to them. My major quibble involves the requirement to suspend belief regarding the precipitous involvement of the two main teachers after two days' acquaintance! That simply did not work for me, although it would not dissuade me from recommending the book.