Dark Places

This book was intense maybe in the last 100 pages. The rest of it was basically just build up. I figured the Magda character would play a bigger role, because there was lots of time spent on describing her and the other women who were obsessed with Ben.

I hated Patty. I found her absolutely spineless. She just seemed to buckle anytime anything got hard. It may sound harsh but I am not surprised that she was losing the farm as she couldn't fix ANY problems she had. She would brush anything and everything under the carpet pretending everything is fine. I realize that she was young when she married Runner but that was her first stupid decision and everything seemed to just get worse after that. Not using condoms because she “didn't want to nag” was just unbelievably stupid.

I liked how the story jumped back and forth in time, I understand that the point was to build up the tension but I think that it maybe should have started a little bit later. Every chapter just seemed to drag on with useless details.

I found Libby to be a whiner as well. You would think that what would drive her to find out about her family was to “get some peace” as she tells Ben but she does it for money.

I think I would have liked it better had the killer been Runner but they made him out way too stupid so I never thought it was him.

Overall not bad, but I think it could have been less draggy.