Nightwork

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When that all caught up to him, and he had to leave it all behind, he didn't think he'd fall in love with anything again. We follow the life of Harry Booth, whose mother was diagnosed with cancer and became a thief to help make ends meet.

I did start to skim towards the halfway point because I found myself not caring a whit about what was going on. pissed-off points for the romance, which took the lazy way out by being a 'love at first sight' - because that somehow explains how easy all of it seemed.Packed with riveting drama and painful truths, this book powerfully illustrates the devastation of abuse—and the strength of the survivors. Over the years, it was great to watch Harry visit so many places during this journey; Europe, Outer Banks, Savannah, and New Orleans; always changing his identity. But the powerful bond between them cannot last—because not all thieves follow Harry’s code of honor.

At the climax of this story, a misanthropic and judgmental Tennessean grandmother pleads with an antinomian serial killer – the Misfit – for her life. He fell in love with the ocean, the hills, New Orleans, North Carolina, and a beautiful girl named Miranda. After the grandmother’s death, he muses that “she would have been a good woman if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life.Photograph: Tristram Kenton/the Guardian ‘What misery to be wise’ … Greg Hicks as Tiresias in The Oedipus Plays by Sophocles at the National Theatre in 1996.

For me, the sign of an awesome author is one who changes the tide of the story with such subtlety that you do not even realize it is happening. They played off each other, the back and forth was GOLD, and their chemistry, genuine love and interest between them authentic and real. Starting with losing a loved one to cancer, switching to having a teacher that means everything to you, and ending with the idea that life will always work out the way that it's meant to. Refusal is not an option: this man is used to getting his own way, and Booth can’t risk the overt threat of injury, even death to those he loves.My only criticisms are that her writing style is changing to ‘more telling, less showing’ (with fragmented, choppy sentences rather than paragraphs) and Harry/Booth was too perfect. But when he sees his father, Jacob, the “inspired Heresiarch”, “stricken by God’s fire” while sitting on “an enormous china chamberpot”, he understands “the divine anger of saintly men”.