Review: The Walls by Hollie Overton

Title: The Walls
Author: Hollie Overton
Publisher: Redhook
Publication Date: August 8, 2017
Edition: Kindle (416 pages)
Genres:

• Fiction
• Suspense
• Thriller

My Rating: 5 of 5 stars

Kristy Tucker spends her days as a Public Information Officer, working on death row at a Texas prison. She is raising her teenage son and caring for her ill father. Because of a school incident involving her son, she meets and marries Lance Dobson. But her life is not at all what she imagined. She lives her life in a constant state of terror about her family's well being, and feels she can tell no one. She knows she has to do something to protect her family. How far will she have to go to do this? How far will she actually go? What are the consequences for her and others?

I found this book enthralling from beginning to end. It challenged me to think outside the box, to those often gray areas, where things are not always so easily defined. It also made me revisit, for the thousandth time, the moral issue of the death penalty, though that is not the focus of the book--it is most definitely a subtext. This is one of my best reads of 2018.