I only made it to page 30 before putting it down, this just did not capture my attention as I thought it would.

This is the story about a boy named Jed Franklin, his life is turned upside down when his father is convicted of sexually abusing and murdering boys in the neighbourhood, Jed struggles to come to terms with what his dad has done and turns to alcohol to numb the pain, on night the a booze fulled stupor he blackouts, he wakes up in the local park covered in his own vomit with no idea of what he did the night before, he goes home to find out that a local boy has gone missing and he was the last person seen talking to said boy which makes him the prime suspect and makes Jed wonder is what his father did "in the blood?"

This is a YA book so there is no detail about what Jed's father did to the children at all you just know he sexually abused and killed them so don't worry if child sexual abuse is a trigger for you.

I think this was a really good concept for a book, you hear about sex offenders on the news all the time and naturally you think of the victims of the abused and/or murdered, but we never stop to think about the impact it has on the family left behind albeit the wife, children, mother ext and I think that this book really does a good a job of highlighting this, however I did feel that this book got very repetitive at times with the same thing being mentioned and gone over by Jed over and over again, I understand that Jed was in a crises and was worried he would turn into his father but we don't need that repeated through the whole narrative, the book did pick up pace when the child went missing and it was a bit tense but then went back to being mundane. The ending also felt a bit rushed.

Overall a great concept for a book but one that isn't executed very well and not a book I would recommend I'm afraid.