Lynn Yvonne Moon

If you just read the prologue without knowing the genre, you would think you’d found your way into a love story, but not just any love story. This is family love and is profound between Early and her husband, Alex Sutton, and their three children. She checks on the children; they’re sound asleep. She walks back to where her husband has started a nice cozy fire in the fireplace and they make love in front of the fire. The very next experience for Early is being in a defendant’s chair months later. She has no recollection after she and Alex fell asleep that night. Her rookie trial lawyer, Drake Anderson, is pleading her case; she’s been accused of murdering her husband and children. Drake eventually discovers that Early is not the only woman on defense for similar crimes. All of them have had a lapse in time; all of them are confused and disoriented.

There are alternate stories and far more characters than just that of Early Sutton, and the reader wonders throughout much of the book how it will all pull together; yet it does. There is devastation in West Virginia; an explosion just outside the small town of Prestonia and people investigating the hospital that used to be there. There are multiple doctors and agencies protecting huge secrets. There are children born deformed, yet this is an intentional consequence of the experimental genetic cross breeding in laboratories of humans and animals.

This novel is an eye opener of what may happen when agencies mock the laws against genetic experimentation that are designed to protect us. The prologue and first chapter really pulled me in. This was not just a legal thriller as I thought it was. In fact, I felt the story had a bit too much going on and many characters to follow. The chapters were short, going back and forth between several scenes rather rapidly. I didn’t quite follow the inference of why the women were found guilty of murdering their families. Other than the description of the victims, there was no portrayal of the state of mind of Early and the other women at their respective crime scenes, and so I wondered why they weren’t also considered victims. The topic of this fictional account is fascinating. The reader may finish the book, but they won’t soon forget the story. I rated the novel at 3 out of 5.… (plus d'informations)