Grist Mill Road by Christopher J. Yates

Available on Amazon

Rating (1-5) 📘📘📘
Genre - Suspense, Thrillers
Format - Hardcover
Length - 352 pages

*Amazon Blurb*

Christopher J. Yates’s cult hit Black Chalk introduced that rare writerly talent: a literary writer who could write a plot with the intricacy of a brilliant mental puzzle, and with characters so absorbing that readers are immediately gripped. Yates’s new book does not disappoint. Grist Mill Road is a dark, twisted, and expertly plotted Rashomon-style tale. The year is 1982; the setting, an Edenic hamlet some ninety miles north of New York City. There, among the craggy rock cliffs and glacial ponds of timeworn mountains, three friends—Patrick, Matthew, and Hannah—are bound together by a terrible and seemingly senseless crime. Twenty-six years later, in New York City, living lives their younger selves never could have predicted, the three meet again—with even more devastating results.

*My Review* 

This book grabbed my attention immediately. I figured I would have it read within just a couple days. It turned out not to be the case. At one point the book changes point of view and you start reading as Hannah. I am not sure what happened here, but I struggled more than anything to read her chapters. I felt like there was just a lot of information given about her growing up that did nothing except fill space in the book. Even after finishing the book, I still don't think I needed to know anything about her families history.
I also lost the connection I felt with Patrick in the beginning. At first I felt for him and understood where he was coming from, but he seemed to deteriorate as a character for me the more I read.