The Little Friend

Omg. I legit do not know how to even begin to write a review. I just finished this book and I'm honestly fuming so it's probably not going to be nice or thoughtful or good. The Little Friend is marketed as a mystery novel, the summary describes it as a mystery of a young boy found hanging in his yard and years later his 12 year old sister goes on a mission to find his killer. That's how the book begins. About 20 pages in, it suddenly veers off to the left to talk about race? Class? Snakes? Nothing at all? And SPOILER ALERT, there is NO closure at the end. The writing is descriptive (read: boring) and I feel like I wasted a week of my life trying to get to the end to find out what happened. Really not sure where the author was trying to go or what message she was trying to send with this book. To be frank, it seems like she wanted to write the story of her own childhood, realized that it was utterly pointless and no one would want to read it unless she made up a subplot. So she slapped a murdered brother on and then just wrote her childhood story.

Summed up: there's a beginning, but no middle, and especially no end. Don't waste your time.