Read Recently: "Forgive Me" by Amanda Ward.

Title: "Forgive Me"

Author: Amanda Eyre Ward

Synopsis: A journalist returns to South Africa, where she first worked as a younger woman, to investigate the truth and reconciliation hearing of an American murdered by a mob during the anti-apartheid protests of the 1980s.

Backstory: Amanda is a friend. Her first two novels are favorites of mine.

Verdict: Like everything Amanda touches, this book is beautifully written and breezy to read without feeling trite. Bizarrely though, I found the narrative confusing and disjointed. I didn't quite get why I should care about which character and got lost more than once in the flashbacks/forwards. I'm a little dense when it comes to these things so it might be entirely my own fault. But since I'm always excited to read something new from Amanda, I felt a bit let down.

I eagerly await book #4.