Reviews for Light of Day

The average rating for Light of Day based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2008-06-30 00:00:00 Mark Porter I read alot of mysteries like Robert Crais, Stephen White, Walter Satherwaite, Thomas Perry, Anne Perry (notice how I worked all of these in?) but I never put them on Goodreads. This book however, could be considered a mystery in a way, but a mystery with ethical challenges. Not that you don't find ethical challenges in the more formulaic mysteries, but they are such cream puffs, such bon bons. This one is about a single father, a professor, who has more or less sacrificed his life (snore, formulaic) to raise his son. But the novel is not formulaic. Well, maybe it is, but with more girth. When an unthinkable thing happens to his beloved son, the professor, Jack, can't stop trying to work it out. Eventually, he does. What would any of us do?

Review # 2 was written on 2009-09-30 00:00:00 Rebecca Whitehead I should not have liked this book...but I really did like it! On the one hand it was depressing as hell and didn't end the way I had wanted it to-one the other hand I was engrossed throughout and couldn't stop reading. The characters are so well drawn that you end up feeling as lost as Jack, and really get to know Danny and Anne even though you only meet them in memories. The "surprise" at the end of part II shouldn't have been as shocking as it was-I had kind of figured that that's where the story was heading-yet I was blown away at the reveal. I don't have the words to explain this experience, I'm just glad that I had it.