Not a Very Fertile One . . .

I really looked forward to this book. I'd read one other with the same premise (dead people speaking about their lives from the grave) and it was rife with community secrets and a long-ago mystery that gradually crystallized to clarity. I'd hoped for the same. Um, no. I had several problems with this book.

1. At times it just felt like an outlet for the author's stream of consciousness. Ugh.

2. The dead people curiously all spoke with the same "voice". Wouldn't that have been corrected at a 5th grade level or so?

3. There was really no closure of the circle of all the stories. Just meandering. He's not that good of a writer for that to be satisfying.

Suffice it to say I won't be looking for other books by this author. Or rather, I will, in order to avoid reading them.