Saturday, June 3, 2023

The Edge of Lost by Kristina McMorris

Sometimes it seems to take me forever to finish a book! It's not that I didn't like this one. It's just that I kept starting and stopping and losing interest - especially in the middle. The book like the main character, Shan, keeps starting over with a new location and different secondary characters, so it's like three books in one!

Shan travels from Dublin to NYC when he is just 12 years old. It's the 20's, and New York is full of immigrant families in different sections of the city. Shan becomes a part of an Italian family and is raised as one of their own. For various reasons, he leaves New York and travels around the country as part of a vaudeville troupe. Trouble seems to always find him. 

At very beginning of the novel, there's a chapter about a little girl who has gone missing on Alcatraz island. We assume the book will circle around to her later at some point, and it does. 

I did enjoy this book, but I probably would have enjoyed it more if I'd read it more quickly and if the pace were a bit faster. - June

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