A review by paulataua
Shoot the Moonlight Out by William Boyle

3.0

It starts in Brooklyn in 1996 with two teenagers running away after inadvertently causing the death of a young female driver while playing a game of throwing small rocks at cars. Time then moves on a few years and a whole range of characters with their own situations that may somehow be linked to that original story are introduced. It’s a great start and within a couple of chapters I thought I found another five star read, but then the plot drifted off so many directions that it tended to lose the core story. New characters were introduced even late into the book and their stories were developed and it all became less rather than more intriguing. I had a feeling that the author had some different objective than following the core story through, but it that was true, either I didn’t get it, or he didn’t really succeed in presenting it. The writing is good enough to make me read something else by the same author, but this didn’t really work for me.