The Book of The Dead

I liked this story because it had many twists and turns in the plot that were unexpected. When the father sits down with his daughter at the lake and they talk about his past at the jail, I did not expect him to say that he was actually a guard at the prison. I thought it was weird that the father just went for an eight hour walk and did not tell anybody where he was going. I would have gotten worried too if he was gone that long and no one had heard from him. I think that all the years of lying to his daughter had finally got to him, and Annie's father felt it necessary to reveal his dark past. If I was Annie, though, I don't think I would have been nearly as calm as she was, just finding out that her father has been lying to her for her entire life. I would have also been upset when I found out that my favorite statue representation of him had been tossed to the bottom of that lake. I was surprised to see the two of them still go to Gabrielle's house without the statue, but I liked how the two fathers were related, with the dark stories of their pasts pulling them together. I was surprised to see the Annie's mother so calm in this situation, also. They made it seem like Annie's father did this all the time and there was nothing to be worried about. I also thought it was weird that her mother had been lying to her all of her life about her father, too. I couldn't believe that the two of them hid all of his dark secrets from their daughter, and they still had such a positive outlook on the whole situation.