The Boy in the Lake

Rating:
Summary: Terse, intense, intriguing, energetic
Review: Try as I did, I couldn't help zooming through this book. Mr. Swanson's simple, engaging style made the actual reading easy, and the need to find out what is going on in Christian's life was so great, I could only zip through the story without the brakes. The present tense/past tense alternating flashbacks and present narrative has been done quite enough, IMHO, but it certainly didn't detract anything from this novel. I went through it a 2nd time just to pick up some of the details I whizzed by the first time and that was definitely worth the effort. Although this is a short book, it isn't too short or lacking structure, development, or detail. Mr. Swanson has told a complete story in just the right amount of time and space.