Literature -- 2 1/2 stars
Teen-aged siblings Matthew, Zoe, and Duncan decide to walk home from school one afternoon instead of waiting for their father to pick them up. Zoe, the observant middle child, spots something in a field, something red that shouldn't be there. Their discovery saves a young man's life, and changes each of them in the process. ----- This was billed as a "poignant and probing psychological drama." I found it very vanilla, and a little dull. Each of the siblings reacts differently to the aftermath of their discovery, and their disparate responses sets each of them on a path isolated from the others. While their motivations are well written, the separate chapters make the stories so disjointed that it is difficult to relate to any of them. A lack of any real tension doesn't help.
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