Where All Light Tends to Go

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“Dead men tell no tales, Jacob. The ones left to living are the ones who write the history.” I received my DRC courtesy of Net Galley and Putnam Penguin publishers in exchange for an honest review. This title becomes available for purchase March 3. Jacob McNeely is a teenager in Cashier, North Carolina, a tiny Appalachian town deep in the crags and hollows of the Appalachian Mountains. His mother in a crank user recently released against his father’s wishes from a psychiatric hospital. Jacob has always wished she might turn into a real mother, but it isn’t going to happen. His father is the local drug czar, with cops on his payroll and a wide variety of other employees as well. He uses McNeely’s Auto Garage to launder his drug money. If any clueless tourist should come by, he gives them a quote so outrageous they take their business elsewhere. Locals foolish enough to cross him or get in his way find themselves and their vehicles in a deep, watery grave yard. That’s if the abused, underfed Walker coonhounds that are tied up at intervals throughout his property don’t kill them first. Searing, wrenching, deeply moving...but not for the kiddies. Full review at Seattle Book Mama.