PK Stasko’s Reviews > Montana 1948 > Status Update

I just finished the book and looking back I think Larry Watson did a really good job painting a picture in my head of the entire book. I did not think that Grandpa would send his men to the house. I kind of just thought he would go by himself. I will always wonder what kind of mental illness Frank had, whether it was something he was born with or whether it was something he got from his time in the military.

I'm starting to question if the Hayden house is even a safe living space anymore. There is someone that is messed up in the head imprisoned in their basement and what makes it even more scary to me is Dad told David “If Grandpa tries to come in don't let him in”. I think that's absurd for a 12-year-old to handle and puts David in an extremely tough spot. Could this mean that David potentially gets hurt.

It is really interesting that the parents still aren't being transparent with David. In that one scene where Wes called David over to see the house walls I thought that was it and the parents were about to tell david. I think David is in a bit of an awkward situation right now because he doesn't have honest parents. If that were me and I knew about the situation I would lose a lot of trust with my parents.

Right when Marie died I thought it was pretty obvious that Frank had something to do with this and I wasn't sure what was going to happen with David. But now after reading this and knowing that he saw it, I think he is going to come fully out to his parents and tell them about the conversation he had with Len as well. My question is are they going to have enough evidence to arrest Uncle Frank.

I finished reading Pages 63 to 77 and that was a lot to take in. Early in the section it was really crazy to me that David had to watch his aunt and uncle have intercourse, that must have be very traumatizing. Then boom Marie dies I think it is very suspicious that right after Frank got Confronted and there was a death. My prediction is that David was eavesdropping again and might have something to say about this.

I finished reading Pages 63 to 77 and that was a lot to take in. Early in the section it was really crazy to me that David had to watch his aunt and uncle have intercourse, that must have be very traumatizing. Then boom Marie dies I think it is very suspicious that right after Frank got Confronted and there was a death. My prediction is that David was eavesdropping again and might have something to say about this.

I just finished reading page 63 and wow Grandpa does not have a filter. All my predictions about why Uncle Frank did what he did were not even close and the crazy part about it was, he was super young. I thought it was interesting that at the beginning of the section his parents were starting to blow their cover to David and I'm surprised they haven't realized that David, knows based on the questions he is asking.

I kind of feel like the first 11 pages are David introducing our setting. It seems like although bentrock is remote he doesn't hate living there. I think it is cool that his family ran this small town Sheriff's Office and If it wasn't for them It would have gone away. I'm getting a bit of a feeling that the parents are divided. I don't know if it's just me but I feel like there could be a fight between them coming