I had been seeing this book mentioned everywhere before I was able to get my hands on it, and after reading it I can definitely see why there was so much hype around this book. The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley tells the story of father (the aforementioned Samuel Hawley) and his daughter (Loo) in chapters that alternate between the two family members. Samuel's chapters tell the story of his twelve bullet wounds while Loo's chapters tell of his discovering both who she is and who her father might be. It's a great study in what it means to be "good" and what it means to be "bad". Tinti does a great job of creating characters that blur those lines, and readers find themselves rooting for characters that exist beyond those boundaries.



Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for giving me an ARC of this novel for an honest review.