This book was beautifully written. Our book club members overall really enjoyed trying to figure out the mystery. " Just when you really think you have it all figured out" said one member, "the author shows you how wrong you are".

Wow! This book was a great read. You will love it if you’re into mysteries with plenty of psychological twists, ambiance and above all – suspense! Any book lover must read this because basically it\\\'s a book about books, writing books, reading books, book lovers... but that\\\'s just the back ground to it. In the novel there are continuous mentions of \\\"Wuthering Heights\\\", \\\"Jane Eyre\\\", \\\"Woman in White\\\", and so on. Each reference has a significance to the central plot. I felt truly drawn into this novel

“Our lives are so important to us that we tend to think the story of them begins with our birth. First there was nothing, then I was born...Yet that is not so. Human lives are not pieces of string that can be separated out from a knot of others and laid out straight. Families are webs. Impossible to touch one part of it without setting the rest vibrating. Impossible to understand one part without having a sense of the whole. - Vida Winter”
? Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale

Everyone in our Book club loved this book.

Everyone in the book club really liked this book. Comments like \\\" I was overwhelmed by their stories\\\" \\\" My eyes were really opened to how difficult it was to survive in North Korea\\\" \\\" I still can not understand why anyone would ever want to go back \\\" This book was so very informative and interesting. Our book club highly recommends it.

The opinion of this book by members of our book club was really varying. Some thought that parts moved along rather slowly. Some really liked certain aspects of the story. Everyone agreed that it was very well written but perhaps a little to long.

Our book club loved this book. We live in Minnesota and were pretty much oblivious to the actually facts about the brutality taking place in Mississippi. This book leaves you hanging with lots of unanswered questions and a real need to read the last book in this series.

Oak Point Drive Bookclub found this book difficult to read at first because of the way the author constructed his sentences. Nevertheless they thought it very informative and interesting. It lead to great discussion and the realization of how important it was to identify our own need to understand that people are all the same but are very different in many ways