This book was not exactly what I expected, but I enjoyed it nonetheless! It had some twist and turns but the ending definitely made me feel “meh” about the book. I enjoyed it until then. No happy endings here really but the characters got got closure and it was well written.

A very interesting book by an author I had not previously read. It starts with death of the mother of the main character, Oscar and the book takes off from there. He finds his father is involved with a spiritual guru who they have given all their money to over the past few years trying to comfort the mother. He is desperate for money and gets involved in drug running. It seems that as a teacher of philosophy, he would not be involved in anything illegal but money does things to people. Oscar finds that he only starting living after the tragedy of his mother's passing. A good read.

Thank you Nicholas Mancusi, HARLEQUIN – Trade Publishing (U.S. & Canada), Hanover Square Press and Netgalley for the ARC for my review