Certain elements-a darker tone, morally ambiguous yet realistic characters-suggest a superior mystery read, while others-inconsistent writing and an overly complicated plot-conspire to make this one of the more frustrating books I’ve picked up this year.
My thoughts: The Chalk Man adds up to a bag as thoroughly mixed as the sweets sacks Eddie and his friends buy at the town shop. That’s when Eddie realizes that saving himself means finally figuring out what really happened all those years ago. When it turns out that his friends got the same message, they think it could be a prank–until one of them turns up dead. In 2016, Eddie is fully grown and thinks he’s put his past behind him, but then he gets a letter in the mail containing a single chalk stick figure.
But then a mysterious chalk man leads them right to a dismembered body, and nothing is ever the same. The chalk men are their secret code: little chalk stick figures they leave for one another as messages only they can understand. They spend their days biking around their sleepy English village and looking for any taste of excitement they can get. Summary (via Goodreads): In 1986, Eddie and his friends are just kids on the verge of adolescence.
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