It wasn’t quite my style, but that is just me and I feel confident this will work for others.
It has a different type of presentation than other thrillers especially with the ‘chit-chat’ group chapters. One of the main factors that will most likely determine whether or not you fully invest into this story is whether you can related to the style of the narrative and overall storytelling. In these text/chat messages we get a more accurate sense of their inner feelings and prejudices that social media tends to bring out of some. Sprinkled through-out the book are “Forest Grove Facebook Chit Chat Group” chapters, where we read the messages being sent in real-time by their neighbors and what they are relaying to each other in regards to the events and what they think about them. The neighbors and the village play a decent-sized role within the story as well. That is except for the Byatt’s, who have had their share of tragedies due to the death of one of their sons several years prior – Joel – and one involving Melissa’s mother. The Byatt’s live in a village called Forest Grove labeled “Utopia of the Woods,” where everything is seemingly perfect and serene. The children provide some responses to her questions on what happened, but being their mother it doesn’t take her too long to realize the answers aren’t completely truthful.Īs you read, the author gives you a very well-rounded view of what a gossipy small town neighborhood might be like. Soon, Melissa comes home from a bike-ride to find her husband bleeding on the kitchen floor. It is automatically clear that one of the three children is responsible for it and there is a cover-up being formed, not to mention overall panic. Wall of Silence opens with the inner thoughts of the person who has stabbed Patrick Byatt, the husband and father of the family.
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