Review: Strange Things Done

Strange Things Done by Elle Wild
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

First off I’d like to thank Netgalley, the author and of course the publisher, for allowing me to read this book in exchange for my honest review.

I wish we could give half stars because sometimes the half will determine wither or not I actually rate it towards the next number up or down, in this case it went down. This is a debut novel by Elle Wild. It was a good book but for me, it really didn’t hold my attention well. I do like to read while we watch T.V., and I usually read during commercials, and then continuing on when the show comes back on, there were times, the commercials held my attention more. I did struggle with the over the first half of the back, and then out of the blue, it grabbed me!

The main character Jo Silver is a journalist; she lives in Dawson City, the Yukon. I did find it hard to read about her, I felt she needed to be more developed, she need to have something more to her character, she rather felt like a character who should be popping in and out. However it was a nice twist for the author to make her the main character, instead of one that others saying, I connected with the character, I felt like she was an old friend in which I was visiting again. No this character wasn’t all of that. She is who she is.

The story takes place in Dawson City, Yukon, Canada, where Jo takes a job as the editor of the paper. She ends up here after she withheld information about a serial killer, which the Vancouver police had told her not to revile to the public. Out of guilt she moves to Dawson City, not realizing this town is cut off from the rest of the world in the winter. Soon after her arrival, the body of Marlo McAdam, local activist and politician, is found in the river. Jo can’t really get any information out of the police, but she does think it’s a murder and not suicides, as they think it is or want her to believe. Along the way Jo discovers some of the secrets the town has been hiding, and then Jo is made a suspect in the murder.

Even though I didn’t love the book, I didn’t hate it and I’d be will to read another of Elle Wilder’s book





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