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Loading... Bent Roadby Lori Roy
None. Wonderful novel. Slow and suspenseful. (  ) pidgeon92 | Apr 1, 2013 |  The big problem with this book is the premise in which a family in Detroit moves back to their homestead in Kansas where there are some really unsavory memories. They move seemingly because one of the daughters begins to have some black boy friends that she pals around with. I think I would have just moved to the suburbs if that was a big deal to me. That said, if you buy the reason they get there it is a pretty good mystery which exposes some nasty things that went on in the past with other family members in Kansas. If the premise was different it might make a pretty good big screen movie. (  ) muddyboy | Feb 17, 2013 | I won this via a Goodreads giveaway. (Thanks Goodreads and Dutton!) In Bent Road Ms. Roy has written a compelling novel with fully drawn characters. The story is part family saga, part (dual) murder mystery. Despite the mystery, which made me want to read right through to the conclusion, I was equally happy to spend time with the characters, even those were quite unlikable! My major complaint with the novel was that it was very choppy. Some scenes were only a few paragraphs long, and at times there were multiple such scenes in a row. I would have preferred Ms. Roy to have spent more time in certain places or added transitional scenes. Still, Ms. Roy announces yet another new voice in literature who I will look for again in the future! (  ) jfieds | Aug 8, 2012 | Set in the 1960's, Arthur Scott brings his wife and children to his hometown in Kansas. An older sister, Eve, had disappeared from this town 25 years ago, and Arthur's youngest child, Evie, is now fascinated with the idea of Aunt Eve. Arthur's other sister struggles to leave an abusive marriage. And another child disappears from the town, in a scenario somewhat similar to Eve's. Bent Road is more about the Scott's family internal issues than it is about the disappearances of the two girls. The disappearances do factor into everyone's emotional state, but the bulk of the book is about the abusive marriage, the family's efforts to help her, and a teenage son's efforts to become a man. At the end of the book, the disappearances become more important to the story line and family secrets are revealed. The characters are very well done. But I found the abusive marriage theme depressing, and there were a number of scenes with animals that I found very disturbing. So I can't really say I enjoyed my time with this book. ( )1  SugarCreekRanch | Jul 28, 2012 | A seemingly mundane story of an all-American family evolves into an intriguing tale of family secrets and mystery. The book reveals the challenges of the relationships of the Scott family as they strive for a new life in the father's home area of Kansas after living in Detroit for years. Supposedly moving to Kansas will be a much safer place for this family to live, but that may not be so as secrets of years past are revealed. This is a great read and I highly recommend it. (  ) CandyH | Jun 26, 2012 |
 Roy’s exceptional debut novel is full of tension, complex characters, and deftly gothic overtones. Readers of Tana French’s In the Woods will find this dark and satisfying story a great read. Highly recommended.
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Celia Scott and her family move back to her husband's hometown in Kansas, where his sister died under mysterious circumstances twenty years before, and where Celia and two of her children struggle to adjust--especially when a local girl disappears.
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