I had really high hopes for this book, the blurb sounded amazing, the first look I had was brilliant, but I was so let down.
The first 19 or so chapters flick between two characters, Rachel & Caroline, this in itself was annoying and actually meant that I would quite easily put the book down. I also failed to gel or like either character because of this. Caroline is a high flying journalist who is currently undergoing a suspension due to her editor thinking she had been having an affair with her husband, this sees her venture over to Ireland from New York. Rachel works in th efilm industry and lives on a house boat with her husband, Hunter, and their dog Jasper (who she annoyingly calls Jasp for the most part of the book as well as referring to their landrover as 'the landy'). Rachel's husband is knocked off of his bike and at the same time, their house boat is broken into and all of Hunter's recording equipment is stolen and footage he has been collecting about a homeless man called Alfie. We are introduced to Alfie very early on in the book when he posts a letter - we don't know what this letter contains or who it is to, but Alfie dies in a fire in his tent and all we have left is a bag of belongings which has a bank statement to a man who had hundreds of thousands in the bank.
All of the various parts of this story do link together really well - it just takes such a long time to get to it and in the meantime we have two women who have never met before, all of a sudden become best friends and turn into investigators looking into supernatural activity at the house and possible links between Hunter's accident and the house because the homeless man said something about being here. It was just way too Nancy Drew for me.
The ending is good and I do think that it is an enjoyable read, it just isn't that great.
The first 19 or so chapters flick between two characters, Rachel & Caroline, this in itself was annoying and actually meant that I would quite easily put the book down. I also failed to gel or like either character because of this. Caroline is a high flying journalist who is currently undergoing a suspension due to her editor thinking she had been having an affair with her husband, this sees her venture over to Ireland from New York. Rachel works in th efilm industry and lives on a house boat with her husband, Hunter, and their dog Jasper (who she annoyingly calls Jasp for the most part of the book as well as referring to their landrover as 'the landy'). Rachel's husband is knocked off of his bike and at the same time, their house boat is broken into and all of Hunter's recording equipment is stolen and footage he has been collecting about a homeless man called Alfie. We are introduced to Alfie very early on in the book when he posts a letter - we don't know what this letter contains or who it is to, but Alfie dies in a fire in his tent and all we have left is a bag of belongings which has a bank statement to a man who had hundreds of thousands in the bank.
All of the various parts of this story do link together really well - it just takes such a long time to get to it and in the meantime we have two women who have never met before, all of a sudden become best friends and turn into investigators looking into supernatural activity at the house and possible links between Hunter's accident and the house because the homeless man said something about being here. It was just way too Nancy Drew for me.
The ending is good and I do think that it is an enjoyable read, it just isn't that great.