In small town Minnesota, in 1958, Jimmy Quinn is found murdered. Obviously murder is always a big deal, but it becomes a bigger deal when the person suspected is Noah Bluestone, a Native American WWII veteran who has recently returned to Jewel with a Japanese wife.
As tensions rise, Sheriff Dern feels the pressure to solve this murder as fast, and as fair, as possible.
I’ve always enjoyed the way WKK writes. He writes poetically to the point.
The beginning of the book starts with a murder, so I thought I was in for another wild ride, as most of his books take me on. This one though, was drawn out. So slow in fact, I’d actually describe it as boring. I struggled wanting to pick it up.
On top of barely wanting to read it due to lack of excitement in the story, when I did go back to it, it felt like yet again another character was introduced. I was easily confused on who was related to who. Who was who. Who cared about who. The backstories on certain people, for example Scott’s Mom or Scott’s love interest… which I was going to go through the trouble of looking up the character’s names but I think that proves my point.
WKK picked up the pace in the last pages of the story, so I would say it was worth it in the end… but was it? I’ll leave that up to you.
In the end, this wasn’t a ‘normal’ WKK book for me. The writing was still well done and talent still there.
Amazon Link – The River We Remember By: William Kent Krueger
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