Swallowing Stones, a book written by Joyce McDonald, is a very suspenseful story. The day starts off normal with two different lives on the line that are about to change in a couple of seconds. The day of the accident happens to be a track star’s 17th birthday, know, as Michael Makenzie. He is celebrating his birthday day with a very close friend of his which later turns into his biggest cover for the trouble he is about to get himself into. One of Michael’s birthday presents was a Winchester Rifle.
After Michael and Joe received the rifle, they took it to the woods and decided to fire a bullet into the sky not realizing, until later, that he just murdered someone and ruined the lives of two family members. Another big character which happens to be the daughter of the victim who was shot and murdered by Michael who goes by the name of Charlie lives her whole life after that moment in grief.
As the story progresses, Michael starts to dig himself into a deeper and deeper hole trying to get out of the situation of him committing involuntary manslaughter and Jenna starts to get these strange panic attacks around her boyfriend and starts to see this stranger who is Michael in her dreams randomly and has no clue why.
The book starts to make you feel anxious of what is going to happen next chapter as you read through the 25 chapters. This is a book that you will not want to put down after you read the prologue or even the first page of the first chapter.