This was a beautiful and engaging novel. The little blurbs describe it as more of a murder mystery type book, which is not how I read it. To me, it was all about the characters and the writing. The author weaves together these lives from various time periods, always coming back to these two women playing Scrabble together. This is a book that I will keep and reread, and I am so glad to have won this from goodreads giveaways! I won this book from a Goodreads First Reads giveaway.I enjoyed the style of writing the author used. I'm not usually a fan of stories where each chapter jumps around to someone different or to a different time period, but the author used this style amazingly to allow the reader to put all of the pieces of the puzzle together.I thought the use of a scrabble game to speak of the unspeakable was pretty cool. I wish that the story gave me more on the developing relationship between Ray and Marne. I think their complicated interactions would be a good story on their own.
I had a tough time with the characters, but the writing was really beautiful.
—khav29
This is a good book. I will definitely look for more books by this author.
—losser
Can't wait to read this... a book about scrabble !
—MissMargarita19
Gorgeous, mysterious beautiful book.
—balance02
