Recently, I started reading The Memory of Water by Karen White. It is a very enjoyable book, and as I tried to analyze why, I realized the author has a way of withholding information from the reader by making the characters hush it up. Her characters in this book have secrets. Lots of them. And they keep them from each other, sometimes to protect the innocent, and most times to keep their sanity. And they keep them from the reader as well.The beauty of doing this becomes a cat and mouse game for the reader. You simply keep turning pages

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