barbara fister reviewed In the blood by Lisa Unger
Review of 'In the blood' on 'LibraryThing'
Not really my kind of book. A young woman whose father is on death row for murdering her mother goes to a small residential college (which has graduate programs) and begins babysitting a disturbed 11-year-old. Everyone has secrets, and the narrator's roommate appears to have uncovered one of hers before disappearing. Lots of gothic overtones, an unreliable narrator, a bad guy who might as well have it tatooed on his forehead - at one level rather fun and certainly readable but (for me) ultimately unsatisfying, particularly in the way it treats mental illness, troubled children, and gender identity.