Title: Ordinary Grace
Author: William Kent Krueger
Source: Audibel and Kindle Unlimited
Audio Length: 10 hours 59 minutes
Book Length: 336 pages
Publisher: Atria Books
Publication Date for Book: March 4, 2014
Publication Date for Audio: March 26, 2013
ISBN: 1451645821
ISBN-13: 978-145-1645859
I started listening to this book on the way home from a long trip. The length of the book was right at 11 hours, which was about the amount of time it would take me to get home. However, about half way through there was a technical issue and no matter what I did I couldn't get it to work. And, to make it even worse, it stopped at a cliff hanger point, and I worried about it all the way home. When I got home I found that it was available through Kindle Unlimited ( my preferred method is to read a story), so I couldn't wait to find out what happened.
I would say that at least the first third of the book is dedicated to character development, so when the action started happening, it was wonderful. However, the long time spent on character development paid off, because I truly felt like I knew and understood the characters very well. When the story picks up steam, it will keep you glued to it until the end. The story is centered around the Drum family who lives in New Bremen, Minnesota. The family consists of a Dad who is a pastor and a Mom that feels she has wasted away in a small town. The children include, 16 year old Ariel, (the apple of Mom's eye) who is getting ready to begin school at Julliard, 13 year old Frank ( the story teller), and Jake, the youngest child. It starts with the death of one of Frank's schoolmates, Bobby. Bobby was ran over by a train and his death is suspicious, because it appears that he just sat there and waited for the train to run him over. Shortly after Bobby's death, Frank and Jake find another dead man not far from where Bobby was killed. As if this wasn't enough tragedy in this small town, there is eventually another death that devastates the Drum family personally. It is not known whether or not the deaths are connected and approximately the second half of the story is dedicated to solving this mystery.
I loved the audio part of the book and feel the narrator did a great job reading it. However, the Kindle Unlimited book was full of grammatical errors, which made it a little frustrating to read. Perhaps these errors occurred during the transference from written to digital. These errors were definitely not in the audio version.
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