The Reckoning at Gossamer Pond By Jaime Jo Wright
By Jaime Jo Wright
Annalise Forsythe inherits a trailer full of photographs, obituaries, and revival paraphernalia. Somehow she is connected to the people in these pictures and stories, but she doesn't know how. She wonders if someone has found out her secrets, the things she did when she was younger. Someone is now out to cause her harm, maybe even kill her. She needs to find out how it is all connected.
A century earlier, Libby Sheffield is working at her father's newspaper when a set of twin revivalists arrives in Gossamer Grove and sets up a disturbance in the community as they try to convert the sinners. Obituaries start coming to the paper in advance of the deaths of the people those obituaries are for. Libby and her former flame are caught up in a search for the person responsible for the deaths that ensue.
As the story unfolds we see how the lives of these two women are connected and what secrets they are hiding or uncovering.
I enjoyed this book, though it wasn't as exciting as the back copy led me to believe. It took a bit to get into the writing style, but I became invested in the story. It was atmospheric and the mystery was heavy, though it didn't all resolve in a satisfying way for me. I liked the past storyline better than the later one; the past story came together in a stronger way, while the later story seemed almost to force a resolution. The mystery in the later story seemed too complicated to follow or understand. I also wasn't thrilled with the culprit in that story. The past story was much easier to follow, had more tension and stronger characters.
All in all, it's just a 3.5 star book for me.
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