Review: Flat
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 01 23, 2012
This WAS an interesting and horrifying book and the concept of taking fact and turning it into fiction, while not new, was interestingly done. This is a story of a family hit by what appears to be a senseless murder (not that any murder makes sense) on the same day that officer Freddie Nutter goes into labor with her daughter.  The book takes us through these frustrating events in fine detail, and is mostly seen by both Freddie the murdered woman's daughter and Sammy Gunn the murderer.I have several problems with a book like this - one is that the main characters displayed no strong emotion, or at least the author didn't manage to convey it to me.  We *are* talking murder here and in fine gory detail  during a very stressful time (delivering a baby).  If this is an aspect of Michiganites,to be stoic and cold, which I highly doubt, then the author should have taken the time to explain this.My second issue ---The problem with both main characters (Freddie Nutter and Sammy Gunn)is that they both experience pedophilia,  Freddie with her brother and Sammy with his mother, yet the author never really explores what that means to both of these people.  Don't forget that parts of this story are supposed to be true.SPOILER ALERT-------->>>>>>>>An interesting twist is in the last section of the book when Freddie's daughter and Sammy's son manage to find each other and form a deep  relationship, yet again the author doesn't explore this very deeply.All in all most of this book, while interesting and most certainly horrifying, was shallow and flat.