Quiet, cool-toned ... Walker’s world-building around the opaque adult Jane...is less assured ... Pizazz is not a narrative prerequisite, but a little levity and specificity, a more colorful interior world, might have gone a long way toward deeper investment in the characters and their outcomes. As it is, the story, with its slow-churn revelations and a conclusion that tips toward the supernatural, builds an eerie, incomplete mood: a scrim of subdued intrigue, obscuring stranger things.
Though this engrossing book often moves with a thriller’s pace, there is little sensationalism in Walker’s writing. She approaches Jane’s story through spare, deliberate prose ... Becomes an emotional journey into the heart of what drives us, what breaks us and what keeps us walking the line of mundane daily life.
