This book was............. hard to finish. But, not because it was bad. It actually wasn't a bad story - just had a LOT of story.
It took me well over a week to finish Paint It Black, by Janet Finch. It is 13 sound discs - or about 16 hours of listening. In real life, it is 400 pages.
The whole book centers around one question: Why?
Teen runaway Josie Tyrell spends this entire book trying to answer this question as to why her boyfriend, Michael Faraday, took his own life.
Why he left her behind. Why his life was surrounded by secrets. Why she couldn't seem to find the answers that she desperately seeks. Why Josie feels incredible guilt for what has happened - taking us inside the head of a person left behind.
The story is simple - but takes off in several directions, giving us details about Josie and Michael and other characters and events that all take us back to the same place. It is not at all hard to follow - in fact, even if my mind drifted from time to time, it didn't make the story confusing.
And, to make my review messier, I will say that I was interested to see where this long journey was going to end up. It just took me a while to get there.
I would say that if anything, it was too long. But the story wasn't bad. Kind of depressing, but maybe even a little enlightening - reminding us of things we forget in our lives.
I say: 3.5 out of 5 bookmarks. (Only because I never felt a rush to turn the page...)
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