The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Audio Version
The author writes as if she's broken free of a world where children only do bad things when they are victims of adults and adults for the most part love all children and those that don't are justly punished. In other words, there's a feeling of "this is what happens when you look under the pretty rocks" to this book, and I like that sort of thing. It's over long by a bit (and still no one dares to edit Rowling, even in a new genre!) but as dark character study fiction goes, this is good stuff.
Tom Hollander as the audio narrator earns five stars all on his own. Perfect match of story to voice!
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