Book: Scavengers by Kathleen Boland
Reviewed by Deb.Reads.Books
Rating: 4/5
Bea’s incredibly unstable childhood led her to a career in finance/trading. After unexpectedly losing her job, she hops on a plane to visit her eccentric mother, who has other plans. Christy, Bea’s gullible and seemingly manic mother, drags her on a treasure hunt with an internet friend that they’ve never met.
While Scavengers is predictably chaotic, the chaos that ensues is as unpredictable as the weather. I never knew which way the story was going to go. Bea and Christy are both sort of unlikeable, but yet you’re somehow still finding yourself rooting for them. Some people genuinely are out there raw-dogging life, driven by impulse instead of logic, like Christy. Christy has a childlike innocence, blindly trusts people, and is full of optimism. Unfortunately her choices leave a path of trauma and destruction in Bea’s path. Bea has spent her life dutifully supporting her mother, and now is on the verge of losing everything. The dynamic between mother and daughter is loving, but strained. The story was hilarious, entertaining, and triggering all at once. I know a “Christy”. It was hard for me to read at times because while the story is so wildly outlandish, I could see the “Christy” in my life following the exact same destructive path with the hopes of finding her next windfall.
Thank you NetGalley & Viking for the ARC for review.