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A review by mlliu
Mr. Splitfoot by Samantha Hunt
4.0
Actual rating is 4.5 stars.
What a strange story. It's the kind of book I might have picked up because ooh, ghost story. At the same time, I don't usually read about such characters or settings or circumstances. If someone had presented the book to me in that way—orphans are fostered in a group home by a religious zealot in Upstate New York—I would have declined to read it. But it was a book-club selection and knowing little about it, the story managed to draw me in. It's creepy and compelling. Not much happens, but I had to follow the thread of a mystery.
What a strange story. It's the kind of book I might have picked up because ooh, ghost story. At the same time, I don't usually read about such characters or settings or circumstances. If someone had presented the book to me in that way—orphans are fostered in a group home by a religious zealot in Upstate New York—I would have declined to read it. But it was a book-club selection and knowing little about it, the story managed to draw me in. It's creepy and compelling. Not much happens, but I had to follow the thread of a mystery.