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A review by rrickman33
Long Bright River by Liz Moore
5.0
Wow this book tore my heart out, stomped on it, and ripped it apart. This is an uncomfortable read y'all but also one that will stick with me for a long time. The characters and stories in this book are so realistically weaved and played out I felt like I was reading a memoir. I got this for my BOTM in Dec 2019 and I was wrong to put off reading it. DON'T SLEEP ON THIS BOOK!
Mickey and her sister Kacey grew up with their grandma, "gee" after their mother dies. These sisters are tied by so much and have fierce love for each other but as adults, have taken opposite paths. Mickey patrols the streets of Kensington, a neighborhood in NE Philadelphia, as a cop and Kacey lives on those streets using drugs and selling herself. They haven't talked in years but Kacey goes missing and Mickey has to look into it because women are turning up murdered in this neighborhood.
This book is definitely not a thriller but it does have a murder mystery and a missing sister mystery. But it's so much more than that. It's a poignant look at the opioid crisis from the side that is often forgotten about, the human side. I stayed up hours after I should have been asleep to finish this novel and now I don't know how to start another one.
I can't say enough good things about the characters and storylines in this book but I will say the format was a little confusing. It alternates between Now and Then but has no chapter names or numbers just pages. There were also no "quotations" when people were talking it was just built into the sentence and I had a hard time telling if they were talking or thinking something. But this aside I think it's definitely worth the read and it would probably be a great audiobook. Let this book in, be uncomfortable with it, and see the human side to a national crisis.
Mickey and her sister Kacey grew up with their grandma, "gee" after their mother dies. These sisters are tied by so much and have fierce love for each other but as adults, have taken opposite paths. Mickey patrols the streets of Kensington, a neighborhood in NE Philadelphia, as a cop and Kacey lives on those streets using drugs and selling herself. They haven't talked in years but Kacey goes missing and Mickey has to look into it because women are turning up murdered in this neighborhood.
This book is definitely not a thriller but it does have a murder mystery and a missing sister mystery. But it's so much more than that. It's a poignant look at the opioid crisis from the side that is often forgotten about, the human side. I stayed up hours after I should have been asleep to finish this novel and now I don't know how to start another one.
I can't say enough good things about the characters and storylines in this book but I will say the format was a little confusing. It alternates between Now and Then but has no chapter names or numbers just pages. There were also no "quotations" when people were talking it was just built into the sentence and I had a hard time telling if they were talking or thinking something. But this aside I think it's definitely worth the read and it would probably be a great audiobook. Let this book in, be uncomfortable with it, and see the human side to a national crisis.