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A review by dmwhipp
The River Widow by Ann Howard Creel
2.0
Adah Branch is married to a brute of a man, but endures his abuse to care for the four-year-old stepdaughter she's come to love as her own child. When Adah kills him in self defense, she disposes of his body in a flood. She soon finds herself and stepdaughter Daisy at the mercy of his family, who are no better and suspect her of killing their son.
The nearly constant depressing and oppressive state of Adah and Daisy's existence grew tedious when there was little change in their circumstances for ages. Adah finds herself falling in love with a man who repeatedly tells her to just leave daisy with her in-laws, despite knowing that have little love for the child and that they're mentally abusive and physically harsh. Daisy grandmother even beat the child for accidentally dropping eggs after gathering them and they've forced the four-year old to sleep in the barn.
The book becomes repetitive with little happening for long periods and many of the similes used seemed awkward. This was a book I had to force myself to finish. The Kindle version is listed as 256 pages, but it felt much, much longer.
The nearly constant depressing and oppressive state of Adah and Daisy's existence grew tedious when there was little change in their circumstances for ages. Adah finds herself falling in love with a man who repeatedly tells her to just leave daisy with her in-laws, despite knowing that have little love for the child and that they're mentally abusive and physically harsh. Daisy grandmother even beat the child for accidentally dropping eggs after gathering them and they've forced the four-year old to sleep in the barn.
The book becomes repetitive with little happening for long periods and many of the similes used seemed awkward. This was a book I had to force myself to finish. The Kindle version is listed as 256 pages, but it felt much, much longer.