Genre:
Suspense
Suspense
Hiding Places
by Erin Healy
| -From Amazon- The Harrison lodge is full of hiding places where young Kate can discover all the secrets no one wants her to know. Eleven-year-old Kate keeps her knowledge to herself—one sister’s stash of marijuana, the other’s petty cash pilfering, her grandfather’s contraband candy bars. She protects her mother and Gran, too, screening out critical comments from the hotel suggestions box. But suddenly the stakes are raised; her grandfather’s best friend is murdered the day after Kate heard the two men arguing. At the same time, far from the quiet mountain resort, a homeless man sees a robbery gone wrong . . . a gang member seeks revenge for the death of his son . . . and a boy chooses the worst time to wield spray paint on a store window. In a strange and spiraling sequence of events, their disparate worlds collide at Harrison Lodge. Kate offers shelter to one of them, unaware of the terrible consequences to the family she loves. But people can hide in all kinds of ways, sometimes even in plain sight . . . and some secrets are just waiting to be exposed. ISBN-13: 978-1401689605 All choices have consequences, sometimes dangerous ones... |  This Book received a 3 Bark rating.
 Erin Healy |
I'm going to be honest right off, I really had a hard time connecting with the characters and the story for the first half of the book and as a consequence it took me a LONG time to read it. The second half of Hiding Places, however, really took off and did quite a bit to make up for the slower start. The final showdown in the lodge was tense, dramatic, chilling, and kept me glued to the page desperate to find out if Kate and her family would make it or not.
This was not my first Erin Healy book, and I loved the previous one I read, so I'm not going to let my difficulties with this one deter me from reading more of her books when I get the chance. Hiding Places had a less of a spiritual element, delving more into the lives and thoughts of a very dysfunctional family, especially the oldest and youngest members whom I really came to like by the end of the book.
While this book didn't have a strong Christian message it did have important themes of love, sacrifice, this importance of family, and of doing what is right even when faced with strong opposition and potentially dire consequences.
This gritty and sometimes dark story from Erin Healy is likely to appeal to fans of Ted Dekker so if you enjoy his books, Hiding Places just might be for you.
Tell Tale Book Reviews gives Hiding Places by Erin Healy a 3 Bark rating.
This was not my first Erin Healy book, and I loved the previous one I read, so I'm not going to let my difficulties with this one deter me from reading more of her books when I get the chance. Hiding Places had a less of a spiritual element, delving more into the lives and thoughts of a very dysfunctional family, especially the oldest and youngest members whom I really came to like by the end of the book.
While this book didn't have a strong Christian message it did have important themes of love, sacrifice, this importance of family, and of doing what is right even when faced with strong opposition and potentially dire consequences.
This gritty and sometimes dark story from Erin Healy is likely to appeal to fans of Ted Dekker so if you enjoy his books, Hiding Places just might be for you.
Tell Tale Book Reviews gives Hiding Places by Erin Healy a 3 Bark rating.
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