The Lincoln Highway was a really great read, highly recommend.
Read this the other day. I appreciate the recommendation. It's not something I would have found on my own.
It was a page-turner, and it kept me going into the wee hours for a few nights.
That said, I really hated the antagonist. He's perfectly written because we all know someone like that in real life and they're constantly being rewarded for making the worst possible choices. I was constantly annoyed throughout the book because of his behavior and the measured response, by everyone, towards it. That's probably the mark of good writing so props to the author.
I didn't like the way the dialogue was written. Without using paragraph offsets or even quotation marks it comes across as a stream of consciousness and could be a chore to follow conversations. At times it came across as a bit too cute.
The writing mechanism of each chapter being told by a different character led to an awful lot of retelling and backtracking. I'm not sure but I think if you picked one of the main characters and read it all the way through using just their chapters you can probably still follow the plot the whole way through, at least from their perspective. The only other book I can think of like this, of all things, was First Blood by David Morrell (Rambo).
Glad I read it but if I had bought it in paperback it would go straight to the donation bin.
Thanks.