It's like reading Twilight but not really? Puget Sound is a haunting place with Cedar trees and longer days with no sun in a winter season. The slow-burn plotline is how you describe a winter -- Snow falling on cedars. Each snowflake has a unique story to tell.

Some lapses include the fillers in between the courtroom drama, the fillers in each character's lives just to fill a chapter (LOL [fill] is a word vomit like cedars). Ewan ko, I've read Burial Rites and it was fine that they focused on the present, rather than add the introspection and character's history of sorts. Maybe this is the writing styles of the 90s.

But overall, it made me imagine a snowy day, and a slow proceeding of Rule of Law. Detached and connected at the same time is what I feel as I closed this book.