For those that haven't read the book it is like a combination of Prince of Tides, Y for Yesterday, Tarzan, and To Kill a Mockingbird.
I liked the movie better than the book but the book provided three good suspects for the murder (if there was one): the brother, the old boyfriend and the storekeeper. The movie barely brushed on two of them but it didn't provide the tension the book did making you guess who it could have been.
One thing that bothered me with both the book and the movie was the first boyfriend not writing at all. It would have been a simple thing to have broken it off (and regretted it later). That would have made the story flow better. At least in the movie she didn't earn a university degree (that seemed ultra unrikely).
The young actress playing Kya was spot on but for some reason i didn't like the later version, although the transition was seemless. Perhaps because i knew Reese Witherspoon was producing the movie i was expecting a Witherspoon type actress. And that may have been why i had trouble with the ending in the book but not the movie > the portrayal was believable.
Kya's father wasn't believable (he didn't come across as being capable of being as savage as portrayed) but most of the other actors were convincing in their roles.
I liked the movie better than the book but the book provided three good suspects for the murder (if there was one): the brother, the old boyfriend and the storekeeper. The movie barely brushed on two of them but it didn't provide the tension the book did making you guess who it could have been.
One thing that bothered me with both the book and the movie was the first boyfriend not writing at all. It would have been a simple thing to have broken it off (and regretted it later). That would have made the story flow better. At least in the movie she didn't earn a university degree (that seemed ultra unrikely).
The young actress playing Kya was spot on but for some reason i didn't like the later version, although the transition was seemless. Perhaps because i knew Reese Witherspoon was producing the movie i was expecting a Witherspoon type actress. And that may have been why i had trouble with the ending in the book but not the movie > the portrayal was believable.
Kya's father wasn't believable (he didn't come across as being capable of being as savage as portrayed) but most of the other actors were convincing in their roles.