The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
My thanks to my GR friend Jodi for recommending this great read, The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters.
In the first two chapters in this story, young Ruthie mysteriously disappears from the rock on which she was eating her lunch. Her family searches – for years – but they can find no trace of the missing child. ( I am not sure if we were ever given the last name of this Mi’kmaq family.)
The secret of what ultimately happened to four year old Ruthie is only revealed in the last two chapters of this story, but the reader will have most likely put two and two together by the 3rd chapter. We, the reading audience, are privy to both sides of the story and have a pretty good idea where the action is headed, whereas the remaining characters in this novel are fed information in excruciatingly slow increments. It took quite a while for all the pennies to finally drop!
Amanda Peters did an excellent job of prolonging the much anticipated reveal until almost the very end.
I highly recommend this great read, set partly in Maine and partly in Nova Scotia.
4 out of 5 well-written stars.
(Thanks for recommending this one, Jodi! A thoroughly great, engrossing read!)
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