A review by turrean
Strange Folk by Alli Dyer

Did not finish book. Stopped at 50%.
The author created such a dark and lovely connection between an family and the natural world. But their magical power combined with the very real tangle of family loyalties and addiction made it doubly infuriating
that the events of the story revolve around a second accusation of abuse against a pedophile. If the rough justice of the Buck women was such a force for good, why on earth wasn’t it handed out first time round?  Did the supernatural vigilantes need Lee’s eyewitness account? What about the eyewitness account of the first victim?

Lee saw a man sexually abusing a girl. She later tells Belva she is sure about what she has seen. Why the actual fuck did she not take off into the woods and try to stop it? Why didn’t she go to the police, to the school, or make an anonymous report if her family situation made her somehow suspect? Make a ruckus, ram the gate, go on foot, see if anybody had a cell phone? Why not tell Belva and the authorities? 

Men escape the legal and social consequences for their sexual abuse of young girls all the damn time. If you can magically prevent a predator from attacking again, why not do it the first time he strikes?
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