Review: The First Day of Spring - Nancy Tucker
Review: The First Day of Spring - Nancy Tucker - May 2021|
This book I had grabbed from Netgalley last year and had forgotten it
amongst all my other thousands of books until recently on one of the book
groups on Facebook, I belong to had posted a snippet of the first page and OMFG
I read it and was like I need to read that book right now and thought before
checking the library Libby app, on the off chance I would check my Kindle and
there it was. So that instantly became my next read. This was a snipped from
the first chapter of the book that captured my attention:
I killed a little boy today. Held my hands around his throat, felt his blood
pump hard against my thumbs. He wriggled and kicked and one of his knees caught
me in the belly, a sharp lasso of pain. I roared. I squeezed. Sweat made it
slippery between our skins but I didn't let go, pressed and pressed until my
nails were white. It was easier than I thought it would be.
Sound fantastic right??? In The First Day of Spring, we meet eight-year-old
Chrissie who is viewed as the "bad seed" of the town as she kills two-year-old
Steven. The book then continues with the town trying to discover who did it and
Chrissie loving seeing the police scramble trying to find the killer.
Later Chrissie feels the urge again and this time kills another and finally is
caught. The book then flips to the Present time where Chrissie is now known as
Julia and living with her daughter Molly and trying to be the best mum she can
be. I liked the ending of this book as it explained a lot why Chrissie had killed
and I have to admit by the end of the story, I felt for Chrissie and just
wished that someone could have seen her pain and that really, she isn't a bad
person but just didn't know how to act and handle her thinking. The First Day
of Spring is told in two POVs - the Past as Chrissie and the Present as
Julia.
If you love murder and don't mind child killers and children killed,
then The First Day of Spring by Nancy Tucker is a book to add to your reading
list for 2022.
Amazon: https://amzn.to/3Hs0FmG
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