Its as if the book was playing hard to get with its information and all it does is draw you in further. Surprisingly this benefited the book as both stories were interesting and it made you constantly think and wonder. This has an interesting effect because when the author would foreshadow and leave the end of the chapter hanging you would have to listen to whole different story before you got to see who this turned out. So the first chapter was narrated by Will and the next by Annie and so on and so forth. It's told by two different narrators that alternate telling there story each chapter. One thing that makes this book really unique is the writing style. This was very smart of the author because it keep me asking questions and the only way for me to anwser them was to read on. Her character is very interesting because she drove the plot of the story without ever being there. At the end of the book Will sees both his nieces emerge from behind the Black Spruce but that's all we every get to see of Susan. This mystery is never really resolved though. She learns that her sister was in trouble and fled to South Carolina. She had run off with Gus Netmaker and just disappeared. Susan's story remained in the shadows though.Īnnie's entire journey to the big city was to solve the mystery of her sister Susan. Eventually we are told how Will is put in the coma, he got bashed in the head with a golf club. Every one likes a good mystery and that was the spark that started this book. The reason they presented so mush appeal was because as the story was told it felt like you were getting closer to the anwser.

The book starts of with two big mysteries, how did Will get in the coma and Annie's sister Susan. Mystery was one thing that gave this book a lot of appeal.

Through black spruce