The Unraveling of Mercy Louis, (Paperback)

from seasonsoflove

I received an ARC of this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. This did not affect my opinion of the book or my review itself. Mercy Louis is a star basketball player on her high school team. She lives with her evangelical, vision-having grandmother, who has taken care of her...

from majesdane

This is the third book I've read about the Le Roy, New York events (the other two being Conversion by Katherine Howe and The Fever by Megan Abbott). Since their plots are so generally similar, I'll compare them for the sake of discussion. Parssinen's book is more complex than Howe's, but it lacks...

from TexasBookLover

Fiction Keija Parssinen The Unraveling of Mercy Louis New York: Harper Hardcover, 978-0-06-231909-8; also available in ebook 320 pages, $25.99 March 10, 2015 Port Sabine is a small derelict refinery town on the Gulf Coast of East Texas, economically depressed and environmentally despoiled, beset ...

from Beamis12

In the description of this novel it says it is a chilling book of psychological suspense, because of a discovery made. While this discovery is very sad, what I found the most chilling was the way the girls were treated in this town. Port Sabine, Texas, on the Gulf coast is a oil refinery town try...