Two stars. It was okay.The beginning, I really didn't like. I didn't like it because, for me, it was rather boring. The main character felt attenuated and unconscious. The controlling/strict father offered no pattern or rhythm, and the text felt like it was largely made up as it went along, drift...
There's nothing to do but keep walking, you have to be ready for everything and I am as I follow behind Father down out of the trees, around a puddle, to the fence of the salvage yard. It's night. "Caroline," Father says, holding open a tear in the fence. "You come through here." He begins to sor...
It was possible that they had been found out, caught, and taken somewhere. With all the planning and precautions, that seemed almost impossible, but it was still a possibility. If they were caught somewhere, they would get out, and then they would come for me. They could not leave me. But I knew ...
Waiting. He’d gotten off work early, the last few days; he was trying to figure out what Colville was doing. And here the man came, walking quickly, not even glancing at the house. The way he walked—he lifted his feet higher than was necessary, his spine rigidly straight despite the heavy frame p...