Hang the Moon by Jeannette Walls – Review by Colleen Noyes

Hang the Moon by Jeannette Walls
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Sallie Kincaid has had to deal with so much. This historical book set in the 20th century is not my usual genre. I found the book intriguing, but it also elicited so many different emotions. It’s hard to think back to a time when women basically had no rights and no say and see what they had to overcome and endure. Sallie, is a dynamic, strong-willed, young lady, who wants more in life than to just be married off. I found myself angry that her father let his new wife ship her off over an accident. Her father Henry, who is referred to as the Duke basically runs the entire county and his family has for years. You discover what I would consider a vile, small minded, egotistical man, who thinks he can do whatever he wants and gets away with it. I loved how Sallie continues to pick her self up off the ground and rebound as one tragedy over another over another continues to happen.

This young lady seems leaps and bounds above in her thinking over most of the men and pretty much all of the women in the story. I found her to be complex, but very believable. I appreciated her pizzazz and her gumption.

I thought that all of the characters in the story were well thought out, were well developed, and each had something remarkable about them self. The story has a lot of tragedy not just for Sally, but for each character involved, and I found myself shaking my head, wondering just how much turmoil one family could handle. I felt that the author did a very good job of dropping bombshell after bombshell throughout the story and you’re not getting them all in one paragraph or one chapter. This was my first book by this author and as a whole I very much enjoyed it. I also found the end result very satisfying in each aspect of the story.

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