This just didn’t cut it as a ghost story for me.
In many ways I felt it was more about the women and their relationships and in that respect it was quite good. There are characters I liked and disliked, and some I would have liked to know more about.
The setting was perfect, but the author let me down. I know Whitby quite well but the explanation of the yard was lacking and it was difficult to imagine the house.
I felt more could have been made of the house and the drying ground. The house didn’t feel haunted to me as a reader, it didn’t scare me or even make me uneasy to be honest.
I also felt that the actual hiding place didn’t have enough attention paid to it, although I certainly felt the ending was creepy and posed the question would you or wouldn’t you?
So in the end, creepy, but a very slow and shallow creep.
Thank you to Readers First, Zaffre and Amanda Mason for the ARC in return for my honest review.
In many ways I felt it was more about the women and their relationships and in that respect it was quite good. There are characters I liked and disliked, and some I would have liked to know more about.
The setting was perfect, but the author let me down. I know Whitby quite well but the explanation of the yard was lacking and it was difficult to imagine the house.
I felt more could have been made of the house and the drying ground. The house didn’t feel haunted to me as a reader, it didn’t scare me or even make me uneasy to be honest.
I also felt that the actual hiding place didn’t have enough attention paid to it, although I certainly felt the ending was creepy and posed the question would you or wouldn’t you?
So in the end, creepy, but a very slow and shallow creep.
Thank you to Readers First, Zaffre and Amanda Mason for the ARC in return for my honest review.