This Dark Road to Mercy

Posted on 03 November 2017 by Wiley Cash

The critically acclaimed author of the New York Times bestseller A Land More Kind Than Home hailed as a powerfully moving debut that reads as if Cormac McCarthy decided to rewrite Harper Lee s To Kill a Mockingbird Richmond Times Dispatch returns with a resonant novel of love and atonement, blood and vengeance, set in western North Carolina, involving two young sisters, a wayward father, and an enemy determined to see him pay for his sins.After their mother s unexpected death, twelve year old Easter and her six year old sister Ruby are adjusting to life in foster care when their errant father, Wade, suddenly appears Since Wade signed away his legal rights, the only way he can get his daughters back is to steal them away in the night.Brady Weller, the girls court appointed guardian, begins looking for Wade, and he quickly turns up unsettling information linking Wade to a recent ard car heist, one with a whopping 14.5 million missing But Brady Weller isn t the only one hunting the desperate father Robert Pruitt, a shady and mercurial man nursing a years old vendetta, is also determined to find Wade and claim his due.Narrated by a trio of alternating voices, This Dark Road to Mercy is a story about the indelible power of family and the primal desire to outrun a past that refuses to let go. Read This Dark Road to Mercy – kino-fada.fr There is a lot of used to be in Wiley Cash s sopho novel, This Dark Road to Mercy Wade Chesterfield used to be a baseball player, used to be a husband and used to be a father But he went oh for three and now, as a guy who used to hang drywall and is on the run, he is mostly a crook Bobby Pruitt had been a ballplayer too, but his damaged youth led him in a dark direction, and now he is an enforcer for a local thug He would like to apply his professional skills to Wade, not only in service There is a lot of used to be in Wiley Cash s sopho novel, This Dark Road to Mercy Wade Chesterfield used to be a baseball player, used to be a husband and used to be a father But he went oh for three and now, as a guy who used to hang drywall and is on the run, he is mostly a crook Bobby Pruitt had been a ballplayer too, but his damaged youth led him in a dark direction, and now he is an enforcer for a local thug He would like to apply his professional skills to Wade, not only in service of his current employer, but as personal payback for something Wade had done to him on the ballfield He presents a clear and present danger not only to Wade but to his family The author Brady Weller used to be a police detective, but after he was involved in an...Wiley Cash is an author that for a very long time I have been meaning to read But he always get pushed to the bottom of my pile I was excited there was a Traveling Sisters read for this one and I jumped in immediately After all that, it was just OK for me Twelve year old Easter and her six year old sister Ruby are growing up in North Carolina and have a rough l...4.5 stars This was an addictive, quick and suspenseful read I flew through this book The storyline grabbed me immediately as I fell in love with the first narrator, 12 year old Easter Quillby She and her sister, 9 year old Ruby Quillby, are living together in foster care after the death of their unstable mother They have lived a rough and unsteady life up to this point with an unreliable mother, inappropriate father figures, dirty h...Wiley Cash has shown once again that he is a writer I will continue to follow I have to admit that I didn t feel the grip of the writing quite as much as I did with A Land More Kind Than Home this one was a little less edgy But I was so taken with one of the narrators, 12 year Easter It s impressive how Cash gets inside the head of this young girl I fell in love with the precocious Easter and her sweet younger sister Ruby They ve had sad little lives right from the beginning It s heartb Wi...There is so muchgoing on inside this novel that the synopsis doesn t mention I m not talking about plot points, either I m talking about the nuances between our perceptions of certain kinds of people versus how they feel about themselves, especially after they re forced to deal with the consequences of their actions.Easter and Ruby, 13 and 8 respectively, are stuck in the foster care system after their mother dies from an overdose Their father has long since disappeared, having signed There is so muchgoing on inside this novel that the synopsis doesn t mention I m not talking about plot points, either I m talking about the nuances between our perceptions of certain kinds of people versus how they feel about themselves, especially after they re forced to deal with the consequences of their actions.Easter and Ruby, 13 and 8 respectively, are stuck in the foster care system after their mother dies from an overdose Their father has long since disappeared, having signed away his parental rights years before Don t worry this info is in the synopsis, so it s not a spoiler, I promise The way that Wiley Cash writes these girls, shaping their characters and personalities is nothing short of fascinating How a grown man understands so much about the inner workings of a young teen and a little girl enough to write them as well as he did is truly mind boggling He should have won ...3.5 stars rounded upThis Dark Road To Mercy took us through a few coulees with our emotions as we followed along with our three narrators We went from the love and atonement lush coulee to the redemption and justice coulee and then to the blood and vengeance dry coulee with our narrators in this story O...Sometimes I feel like moanin , and I feel like moanin tonight Cuz when I m moanin the devil don t know what I m talking about This satisfying and memorable novel takes place in the summer of 1998, during which now disgraced St Louis Cardinal Mark McGwire and Chicago Cub Sammy Sosa chased the single season homerun record of 61 homers set by Yankee Roger Maris in 1961 Wade and his daughter Easter, the twelve year old protagonist whose mom recently died from a drug overdose, travel from t Sometimes I feel like moanin , and I feel like moanin tonight Cuz when I m moanin the devil don t know what I m talking about This satisfying and memorable novel takes place in the summer of 1998, during which now disgraced St Louis Cardinal Mark McGwire and Chicago Cub Sammy Sosa chased the single season homerun record of 61 homers set by Yankee Roger Maris in 1961 Wade and his daught...This was another excellent Traveling Sister read with Brenda, Lindsay, and PorshaJo The Sister s blog with reviews to this and others can be found here story is narrated by 3 characters Easter, Brady, and Pruitt Easter and her sister Ruby are left wards of the state after their mother dies from a drug overdose The girls quickly captured my heart Wiley knocked it out of the ballpark with his characterization of Easter She s precocious and wise bey This was another excellent Traveling Sister read with Brenda, Lindsay, and PorshaJo The Sister s blog with reviews to this and others can be found here story is narrated by 3 characters Easter, ...3.5 Wiley Cash has the enviable knack of writing about siblings needing to protect each other and he has created two sisters this time that find themselves in that same situation Just the protecting because Easter and her little sister Ruby, are not in danger from their father Wade, but from a man who is after Wade for revenge.I liked this book, liked outspoken and incredibly wise for her years, Easter and loved little Ruby who looks on so many things with wonder Loved the baseball talk and th 3.5 Wiley Cash has the enviable knack of writing about siblings needing to protect each other and he has created two sisters this time that find themselves in that same situation Just the protecting because Easter and her little sister Ruby, are not in danger from their father Wade, but from a man who is after Wade for revenge.I liked this book, liked outspoken and incredibly wise for her years, Easter and loved little Ruby who looks on so many things with wonder Loved the baseball talk and the love for the game evinced by all three I even liked Wade, who has made so...Having read two of this author s books now, there were common features in both stories that I really liked In both he creates a vivid Southern atmosphere, along with unforgettable characters, portraying the young and innocent in a way that tugs at your heart strings Two young sisters are kidnapped from their foster home by their estranged father after the loss of their irresponsible mother It was impossible not to care about these adorable sisters, Easter and Ruby as their safety was at risk Having read two of this author s books now, there were common features in both stories that I really liked In both he creates a vivid Southern atmosphere, along with unforgettable characters, portraying the young and innocent in a way that tugs at your heart strings Two young sisters are kidnapped from their foster home by their estranged father after the loss of their irresponsible mother It was impossible not to care about these adorable sisters, Easter and Ruby as their safety was at risk Easter was wise beyond her years and an admirable big sister to sweet Ruby I also couldn t help but feel sorry for their dad...

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03 November 2017

Wiley Cash