Jaclyn’s Review: Faultlines by Barbara Taylor Sissel

Faultlines
written by Barbara Taylor Sissel
published by Lake Union Publishing, 2016

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Did I enjoy this book? I ended up liking this book. I wasn’t so sure about it at the beginning, but it grew on me. This book started out with what seemed like two different plots–a mom who found out her 20-year-old son was just in a horrific car accident and an older woman who is relocating to the country with her husband. The book kept flipping between these two narrators, and it took quite a while before you figured out how their stories were related. The car accident plot was incredibly compelling and is what kept me reading when I got frustrated with the questionable narration.

The only problem I had with this book was that none of the adults seemed concerned when discussing the drinking habits of their teenage children. This was assumed to be completely normal, and even the police didn’t seem bothered by it. This really got to me when one set of parents threatened to sue the other set of parents of the kids involved in the car accident–when the threatening parents were the ones who SERVED the kids the alcohol!

Legal issues aside, I couldn’t put this book down.

 

Would I recommend it? Yes, I would recommend this book.  You have to take a leap of faith for the first few chapters, but the payoff is worth it.

 

About the book – from Goodreads: It’s the phone call every parent dreads: in the middle of the night, Sandy Cline learns that her twenty-year-old son, Jordan, has been in a car accident. Her nephew, Travis, was also in the car, along with Travis’s girlfriend. All three are alive—but barely. The car was smashed against a tree along a remote and winding road, beautiful but deadly, in their rural Texas Hill Country town.

In the wake of the car crash, the close-knit family is tested like never before. Jenna, Travis’s mother, blames Jordan—as well as her sister, Sandy—after reports surface that Jordan had been driving. As the young adults struggle to survive, tension between their parents escalates. But when trust is broken and a shocking family secret is exposed, it creates a perfect storm of harrowing consequences. Rumors in the small town spread like wildfire. When details of the accident are questioned, Sandy and Jenna wonder if their family has been destroyed beyond repair.

As always, there’s much more to the story…if the family is to survive, they will have to come together to confront the terrible truth and overcome their pain. But are some betrayals unforgivable?

 

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