Review: See How Small - Scott Blackwood

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Review: See How Small - Scott Blackwood - January 2015


Ever read a book that still leaves you confused? That was "See How Small" by Scott Blackwood. This month, I joined an Instagram reading challenge to help clear the books off your print bookshelves. This particular one I have no idea how I got it or how long it has been sitting there. The back sounded intriguing, the aftermath of a tragedy that involved three girls in a small community. What I got though was a bit of a jumbled mess and confusion. The book is loosely based on the 1991 Yoghurt Shop Murders in Austin, Texas. In this book, three girls are stripped and murdered as the shop is also torched. Quite a gruesome ending to the girls' lives, thank goodness the author doesn't go into too much detail about their death. The book then follows on from the day after to the anniversaries of their deaths. Police are still no closer in the present time to solving it than they were the day it happened. Despite a couple of witnesses, no one knows exactly what went down that fateful evening. I felt this book had a Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold feel to it mixed with what you could expect from an Indie/ Arty Film Festival-type movie. You know the ones that are a little strange and don't really fit into a genre or theme. See How Small is not only the aftermath of tragedy but also contains a bit of magical realism with the girls as ghosts and watching their loved ones and the town.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Austin_yogurt_shop_killings






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