My Never Ending List

It took me a while to totally grasp the whole image of what was taking place as I read about the horrible massacre that hit the Day farmstead that killed three family members and left Libby Day the lone survivor.  Told from three different points of view this story crosses time barriers that allow you to glimpse inside the Day’s family life before the tragic event, during the event and the aftereffect.    Twenty-five years later, Libby’s life is hopeless and bleak, playing the part of a victim she has allowed herself to be a ghost and disappear from life.  Finally running out of money, she has to find a means for survival so he comes across a club that will provide her with funds if she reconnects with her past.  Search for work or find out what really happened twenty-five years ago?  The idea of having to work at a job has Libby opening her past and searching for the truth of what really happened at her house that took that lives of her family members.  Did she really see her older brother Ben kill her family or was that a suggestion brought on by the doctors to the seven-year Libby?  As her past haunts her, she finds out the truth about her family and the demons from her childhood surface making this book one of my hair-dryer books (one I cannot put down even to blow dry my hair). Just when you think Libby has uncovered a secret from her past that puts a suspect on her list another secret is unleashed that draws another suspect into the limelight.  Little Libby will never be the same.
I really enjoyed crossing the time barriers and reading the story from 1985 when the murders take place and now when Libby is uncovering all the details.  I was having these ah-ha moments and waiting for Libby to discover the facts as I discovered tiny details between the two time periods.  The language was rich and raw at moments and you felt so much energy in them.  They just screamed from the pages.  Ben, Libby’s brother who she thought she saw murder her family is taking the rap for the murders and is in prison and he is content with being behind bars even though he knows what went down that day. As Libby visits him she knows he is hiding something and she has to dig deeper than she even thought possible to uncover the mystery behind the events of that tragic day.  Oh, I love a great mystery and the events leading up to this incident were so secret that it’s no wonder they lied buried for so long.

"I prepared to get out of bed, tossing the covers aside, the sheets a dank-smelling, gray from my body. I wondered how long it had been since I'd changed them. And then I wondered how often you were supposed to change them. These were the kinds of things you didn't learn. I changed the bedclothes after sex, now, finally and that I only learned a few years ago from a movie on TV: Glenn Close, some thriller..."

 For mature readers are there is strong language and sexual content.