Nightwoods - Charles Frazier

I loved the movie cold mountain and have meant to read the book.  So when I saw this book by the same author I grabbed it for a quick read.  It isn't a real big book but I felt it was bigger then it needed to be.  I did finish it though which I don't always do. 

The story of Luce who inherits her murdered sisters twins and has her life turned upside down in the process.  Luce is a hermit just outside of a small town in North Carolina in the early 1960's.  Her sisters children have put a new meaning to the word troubled and that is just the beginning. 

I found I enjoyed this book as a whole once I had finished reading it but it did kind of drag for me in a lot of places in the middle but I finished it cause I wanted to know how it ended.  I can honestly say that as much as I liked the movie Cold Mountain I don't see myself taking the time to read the book.