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read. As with all of Ford's novels, the characters are real, like people you meet every day, The murder mystery adds a twist that drives the novel and keeps the reader on her toes! Not as believable as some of his novels, but still a really good one that I recommend highly! I've read several of Ford's books before and enjoyed them, but this one left me cold.
One of the main devices, moving back and forth in time to tell the story, was very jarring, Plus, I really didn't like most of the characters, I've read and enjoyed Michael Thomas Ford's previous novels which largely focused on gay life immersed in a variety of dramatic and comedic situations.
With "What We Remember", he scores points for moving out of his comfort zone with what could best be described as a murder mystery wrapped in a backwoods family drama.
For me, it possibly could have earned a five star if not for a couple of glaring problems, Without providing spoilers, let's just say those problems involved the main suspect and let's just say the author tends to reintroduce characters long after you've come close to forgetting about them.
Still, I can overlook it all because the story still drew me in and kept me turning pages, Like an old friend said, . "the wine may not be the best, but it still gets ya hammered, . . " LOL i never guessed right, I changed my guess at leasttimes and was still wrong, but thats whats great about it, Nate's a weirdo i mean, . . he's clearly not all the way there, anyrate, it was a a good read Interesting whodoneit fast read, I loved the previous two books I read by Michael Thomas Ford, This was a complicated story about one pretty fcked up family and I liked maybe one member of them, Billy, and only sometimes, To sum it all for me this was a bit too much drama, no romance, no main character I could fall in love, over all a bit of a disappointment.
This book really annoyed me I dont really know why I finished it, I guess I had never read the author before and I love Steve Walker, the artist who does his covers, though I will agree that neither of the covers had anything whatsoever to do with the book.
The book had so many problems I found myself constantly gritting my teeth, and though it did become ever so slightly more readable at the end, it never got good or even okay.


Several problems:
, No likeable characters.
. No rational decisions from the characters,
. In a book sold to gay men, we get:
“She found the sweet tender bud hidden among the warm folds and began to massage it while she fantasized about the man in the pictures.
”
. I took a writing class once and the teacher explained how to draw someone in and make them think, Your character gets a phone call from someone they dislike inviting them to a party, They say yes through gritted teeth, The reader knows they dont want to go but the caller doesnt, the reader gets the inside view, and they get to use their mind to work out that she doesnt really

want to go.
This exact situation happens in this book but is of course followed by the sister explaining to the reader that she didnt want to go.
Well we know that, she just spentpages bitching about the woman, give us some credit,
. Shirley Jacksons The Lottery is explained with:
“James had read it three times each time he couldnt believe that Shirley Jackson had written something so strange.
It was weirder than a Stephen King story, ”
This is the second Stephen King weird reference in the book, Get another reference.
. All heterosexual characters look on the gay character badly and call him “queerboy” and other names, These are people who live with him and see him daily and in some cases even have sex with him, not all of these people would be homophobic! And I didnt appreciate the constant use of antigay slurs.

. At one point a character is charged with the murder and there are many, like, references to what a strong case there is against him.

“But if youre sure he didnt do it, were going to have to find some evidence to support it, because what there is now is pretty damning.
”
Heres the evidence. His ring was found the coffin of the dead man, placed there eight years ago, The end. I dont know if youve looked up the word circumstantial in the dictionary but this is the definition, And so many times to keep going back to his impregnable guilt, it drove me crazy,
. spoiler The murderer wasnt blamed for the murder as she was a female so instead they blamed the man who was in the same room and unconscious at the time.
His guilt is a given we are to go along with for the rest of the book, What!!!
. After the book is over, Billy, the alcoholic drug user, is sitting in a bar drinking alcohol and says hes decided to give up drinking and start a new life.
This is played for the happy ending, What alcoholic sitting in a bar with a drink hasnt said this I didnt believe it for a second, Recently I went to the Lambda Literary awards in NYC, This book won an award and it sounded interesting, So far, I love it! Great story that alternated each chapter between past and present, It kept you guessing on who killed the father and with each chapter, you saw it could be someone else, Very good read! Este libro daría para una buena miniserie en cualquiera de las plataformas de hoy en día porque cada capítulo y tiene un montón piensas que el culpable es uno distinto, hay muchas historias paralelas a cada cual más intrigante, los personajes no son nada atractivos realmente no te cae bien ni el muerto.
. ! y consigue que estés en todo momento pendiente de cómo seguirá todo,
Cada capítulo pertenece a un año distinto en una franja deaños que va alternado para atrás y para adelante constantemente, para mi gusto estos son muy cortos que no te dan tiempo a asimilar lo leído cuando ya cambias de año, lo que me resultó muy perjudicial para disfrutar bien de la historia y además considero que excesivamente largo, me costo horrores no abandonar.
It took me a while to get into the story, more because I wasn't settling to read than the story itself though I suspect, but once I actually sat and started reading in concentrated blocks, this was a book I didn't want to put down, especially towards the end.
It's definitely up to the author's usual standard, although the genre is a little different than what I was expecting, I did guess the identity of the murderer although not all of the details, and pleased with the way it worked out in the finish.
He writes an ensemble cast extremely well, and this flowed seemlessly across shifting POVs and time frames, While one of the main characters is gay, it's not really the crux of the story nor would I class this as gay lit as I would with the other books of his I've read.

I just re read this and remembered nothing from the first readyears ago, This is not the author's usual type of story, a mystery, buried deep in two families, that returns to the surfaceyears later when Sheriff James McCloud's body is found when someone is building a cabin in the woods.
His death was passed off as a suicide according to a note saying that he was dying of cancer and wanted to spare his family the final months of suffering.
His oldest son's high school ring is found with the body and he is arrested for the murder, No one believes that James is guilty but he remains in jail until a daughter of family friends return to Cold Falls after being away foryears.
A tense tale with very few of the characters being very likeable, I enjoy his books and they usually take place near where I grew up, There is always a quirk with some dialogue or timeline that will leave feeling as though the editor missed something, I find myself looking for these in the authors writings, It adds to the fun, Audible


It pains me a lot to rate this book under yes, because in spite of my personal issues with the story, I can't complain about the writing style but for me sitelinkWhat We Remember is probably the weakest novel I read until now by Michael Thomas Ford, BTW, one of my favourite authors.


I find also difficult to explain WHY this one is less satisfying for me, For the first time, while reading MTF, I have been torn between my objective and subjective liking/disliking and accompanying contradictions:

Ahthe plot.
The mystery here is not your typical one, I'd say that it's rather a family drama, The reader has to deal with skeletons in the closet a lot of family's secrets, The most intriguing part of the mystery for me is always a mental process, the investigating part, a game of catandmouse, the way HOW a case has been solved.
There is no actually any investigation here, We have a district attorney as a main suspect, we have his girl friend, a counsellor, we have a family of a murdered sheriffBTW, the main suspect is also his son, but we don't have any investigation.
This mystery could have been solvedyears ago, If the family members would have talked to each other,

We have, as always, a great character development, But on the contrary to his other books, I couldn't find ANYONE, not EVEN a single character to care about, Not to mention to LIKE anyone, A lot of family members, but pretty unsympathetic, Well, there was James, a main suspect in the murder case, but he wasn't really present in the story,

I don't consider it as a gay mystery, I know, MTF is a gay fiction writerand a great one!, this book won the Lambda Literary Award in the category Gay Mystery, so.
. . why do I complain! Because I DON'T SEE IT AS A GAY MYSTERY, As a mystery, yes, but I have my own imaginations about the category, This one doesn't meet them IMO,

I'm not fussy, BUT THIS COVER HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE BOOK,

My final verdict:

A great writing, an interesting family story, appropriate pacing, thrilling family drama, believable but not likeable characters, not strong enough but intriguing mystery atmosphere.
Not my favourite by Michael Thomas Ford, but still an enjoyable read,


P, S. Blake Somerset did a great job, .