This one had me torn between not wanting to put it down and then not wanting to pick it up, as I didn't want it to end!!
I was stupid enough to start reading this at night, certainly gave me the chills. I found myself constantly looking over my shoulder, it had me majorly in edge. I'm normaly pretty good at figuring out how the story will go, but on a few occasions I found myself wondering which direction it would take.
I cant imagine how hard it all was on Alfie. But I did find him a little annoying now and then. Black mamba is terrifying, just picturing what my reaction would be if my children were saying what the twins were saying, I'll be packing us up and out the door 😅
I'm really looking forward to seeing more by William England. I'm eager to read more from him!
Blurb
This is the chilling announcement Alfie hears one night, when he wakes in his quiet, suburban house to find his twin daughters at the foot of his bed. It's been nine months since Pippa - their mother - suddenly died and they've been unsettled ever since, so Alfie assumes they've probably had a nightmare. Still, he goes to check to reassure the girls. As expected he finds no man, but in the following days the girls begin to refer to someone called Black Mamba. What seemingly begins as an imaginary friend quickly develops into something darker, more obsessive, potentially violent. Alfie finds himself struggling to cope, and so he turns to Julia - Pippa's twin and a psychotherapist - for help. But as Black Mamba's coils tighten around the girls, Alfie and Julia must contend with their own unspoken sense of loss, their unacknowledged attraction to one another, and the true character of the presence poisoning the twins' minds...
I was stupid enough to start reading this at night, certainly gave me the chills. I found myself constantly looking over my shoulder, it had me majorly in edge. I'm normaly pretty good at figuring out how the story will go, but on a few occasions I found myself wondering which direction it would take.
I cant imagine how hard it all was on Alfie. But I did find him a little annoying now and then. Black mamba is terrifying, just picturing what my reaction would be if my children were saying what the twins were saying, I'll be packing us up and out the door 😅
I'm really looking forward to seeing more by William England. I'm eager to read more from him!
Blurb
This is the chilling announcement Alfie hears one night, when he wakes in his quiet, suburban house to find his twin daughters at the foot of his bed. It's been nine months since Pippa - their mother - suddenly died and they've been unsettled ever since, so Alfie assumes they've probably had a nightmare. Still, he goes to check to reassure the girls. As expected he finds no man, but in the following days the girls begin to refer to someone called Black Mamba. What seemingly begins as an imaginary friend quickly develops into something darker, more obsessive, potentially violent. Alfie finds himself struggling to cope, and so he turns to Julia - Pippa's twin and a psychotherapist - for help. But as Black Mamba's coils tighten around the girls, Alfie and Julia must contend with their own unspoken sense of loss, their unacknowledged attraction to one another, and the true character of the presence poisoning the twins' minds...