Page count: 394 pages
Personal rating: 1 star
In short
The Farm explores the legend of a 200-year-old circuit riding preacher who pays a visit to the tiny mountain community of Solom. At the heart of the story is the relationship between a mother and daughter who are new to the town and are just discovering its strange history and dark secrets.
My two cents
The farm was a novel a couldn't finish. Not that it was THAT bad, but it just wasn't my scene. I have read a large chunk of it, but then with giving birth and caring for my little girl I just couldn't sacrifice the time of day when she was asleep to finish up this novel. Time has become very precious for me at the moment and I only want to fill it up with the best of the best.
The farm is what you call a next door novel. Someone you know might have written it, I might have written it. It lacks the editing and supervision of a good agent.
Also it lacks a smooth pace in which events take place. It hops from here to there and back again.
The story in itself didn't appeal so much to me either.
It seems like I'm hauling it down severely, but judging from the score it got on Goodreads, I think it a very subjective opinion. You can't do good by everyone.
I think my biggest mistake was to expect some kind of Jack Ketchum story.
