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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Riveting, fascinating, loved, Loved, LOVED this book. ( )This novel encompasses severe family dysfunction, addiction and long-buried secrets that eventually emerge. I felt that the end of the book required a suspension of disbelief and concluded too easily given all that had transpired. I really, really liked THE LAST BRIDGE. From the very beginning, I was hooked. It kept my interest to the very end: was never boring or slow. Although there were unpleasant situations and circumstances involved, I did not find it depressing. I liked Cat and felt there was a lot of strength in her and I really didn't get the idea she was a "poor me" character. I do recommend this book and wil read the next one by this author. The Last Bridge is a melodramatic story of familial disfunction. It was a rip roaring read that reminded me of Gillian Flynn's Sharp Objects and Cornelia Read's Field of Darkness, up until the very last chapters when the whole thing was wrapped up a little too neatly and much to happily to match the rest of the book. With a different ending and about a hundred more pages this book could have been a knockout. It was still worth reading, but I do feel a little manipulated. "Two days after my father had a massive stroke my mother shot herself in the head." Thus begins Teri Coyne's tense, desperate, and fast-paced family drama. Alexandra "Cat" Rucker has been trying to bury the past with liquor and frequent changes of "home" but she's called back to Wilton, Ohio, when her mother leaves a suicide note addressed to her. "He isn't who you think he is." As Teri Coyne unravels Cat's troubling story, the note takes on different meanings. Cat is so used to running that she can barely cope with the reality of her mother's death much less dredging up the past. Cat's family history contains abuse, jealousy, denial and despair but Coyne also works in a tone of redemption without losing any of the force behind this honest account of an American family. no reviews | add a review
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