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Excellence Limo AR

Catalogs and Travel

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Download the Excellence Limo app from Apple App Store. The cars on the Excellence limo brochure are...

Our Bridal Shop (Match Made in Devon Bridal Shop #1)

Danielle Blair

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Every family has its secrets, and the March family is no exception. For the March sisters, Match...

Women's Fiction

Alison Pink (7 KP) rated The Most Dangerous Thing in Books

Jan 15, 2018

This is the first Laura Lippman novel I've read. I had heard fantastic things about her writing style & her ability to write real life characters in real life, yet intriguing situations. This book fits into both of those molds.
The Most Dangerous Thing bounces around through the lives of 5 children. Its focal point is one summer in 1979 & the events that happened while the kids were having adventures in the forest around their homes. The story bounces around quite a bit, but is never hard to follow. The story arc is interesting & very believable. The many & varied characters you meet throughout are all interesting, but not too over the top to prevent you from thinking they couldn't be real. The story really isn't completely known until the very end of the book. I kept guessing at what was what & who did what. I skirted around what "really happened" but never did manage to figure it out.
So, what makes me give it a 3? Well if there were 1/2 stars it would be a 3 & 1/2 if that helps. It was interesting, but I could put it down & not have that burning itch to know what was going to happen. Yet at the same time it was satisfyingly frustrating...I was never quite sure what was going to happen to the main characters.