Burial Rites

I saw this one on the library shelf while I was grabbing something else, and I was not too keen to read it but I started it and could not put it down. I can't remember the last time I read something so atmospheric. And the voice! I loved Kent's voice. I felt for Agnes and read on even though I knew what was coming. Very few writers nail writing multiple layered characters, and I always forgive them for it because it's damned near impossible and then here is Kent creating personalities and moral quandaries so well that even characters with only a paragraph or two come alive and jump off the page. Not once does the story leave Agnes and follow someone else down a rabbit hole- the story is Agnes's and remains with her all the way through.

I loved it, which is weird considering it's subject matter, but I did.