Title: The Current
Author: Tim Johnston
Genre: Psychological Thriller/Mystery
Pages: 406 (Paperback - ARC)
Publisher: Algonquin
Publication date: January 22nd, 2019
Synopsis from The Current's Goodreads page
When two young women leave their college campus in the dead of winter for a 700-mile drive north to Minnesota, they suddenly find themselves fighting for their lives in the icy waters of the Black Root River, just miles from home. One girl’s survival, and the other’s death—murder, actually—stun the citizens of a small Minnesota town, thawing memories of another young woman who lost her life in the same river ten years earlier, and whose killer may yet live among them. One father is forced to relive his agony while another’s greatest desire—to bring a killer to justice—is revitalized . . . and the girl who survived the icy plunge cannot escape the sense that she is connected to that earlier unsolved case by more than a river. Soon enough she’s caught up in an investigation of her own that will unearth long-hidden secrets, and stoke the violence that has long simmered just below the surface of the town. Souls frozen in time, ghosts and demons, the accused and the guilty, all stir to life in this cold northern place where memories, like treachery, run just beneath the ice, and where a young woman can come home but still not be safe.
THOUGHTS
Thank you so much to Thomas Allen & Son for sending me an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review!
I had a hard time at the beginning of this book; I found that I was confusing people and names, however after a few chapters everything started falling into place and I ended up really enjoying it!
The setting in this book I really enjoyed - the way that the author described the towns, and especially how they described the rivers, how they moved, how they froze over in winter, how cold they were - it really gave the book life and made it feel realistic. It made you feel like you were in the book, one of the characters, instead of just reading it. The settings were extremely life-like, and I really enjoy that in a book. When the author can make the reader feel like they are actually there, in the book with the characters, it's been done very well.
The characters in the book were also done very well. I found that they were all different, some good and some evil, some kind and others mean. They all had their quirks, and they all had some issues, but that made them seem more human and more relate-able. I really enjoyed reading about them!
The other thing I enjoyed is just how...sad this book is. These poor girls have so many bad things happen to them, and all of them have so many things that they have to struggle through. Especially the main character - she continuously has so many things to fight through, so many things to deal with and so many problems to face, and none of them are small or easy to deal with. This book is sad, but it is sad in a good way. We see her strength, her resilience, and her abilities through her struggles, and that made this sad book a little less sad.
The only reason this didn't get a full five stars for me was because I wanted everything to be neatly wrapped up at the end, and I feel like a little more could have been added, even an epilogue or something similar a few years or months down the road, just so that all of the loose strings could be tied up neatly. Other than that, I loved this book and I highly recommend it!
The setting in this book I really enjoyed - the way that the author described the towns, and especially how they described the rivers, how they moved, how they froze over in winter, how cold they were - it really gave the book life and made it feel realistic. It made you feel like you were in the book, one of the characters, instead of just reading it. The settings were extremely life-like, and I really enjoy that in a book. When the author can make the reader feel like they are actually there, in the book with the characters, it's been done very well.
The characters in the book were also done very well. I found that they were all different, some good and some evil, some kind and others mean. They all had their quirks, and they all had some issues, but that made them seem more human and more relate-able. I really enjoyed reading about them!
The other thing I enjoyed is just how...sad this book is. These poor girls have so many bad things happen to them, and all of them have so many things that they have to struggle through. Especially the main character - she continuously has so many things to fight through, so many things to deal with and so many problems to face, and none of them are small or easy to deal with. This book is sad, but it is sad in a good way. We see her strength, her resilience, and her abilities through her struggles, and that made this sad book a little less sad.
The only reason this didn't get a full five stars for me was because I wanted everything to be neatly wrapped up at the end, and I feel like a little more could have been added, even an epilogue or something similar a few years or months down the road, just so that all of the loose strings could be tied up neatly. Other than that, I loved this book and I highly recommend it!
Overall - ★★★★☆
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