Started May 10th, finished May 13th.
This was another book swap with Karode I was interested in reading the book but had always seen bigger books for the same price in the bookshop. I got a little tight-fisted about it.
One of my favourite plays is The Woman in Black which I saw before I read the book. I was slightly underwhelmed by the book. I took this to be because the play has such a sense of atmosphere.
Then I read this book. I was a little underwhelmed by this too. Which is a real shame as I wanted to adore this book. As I wanted to it's predecessor. Everyone I know loves the way she writes her 'spooky' stories but there's something which I can't quite put my finger on that takes me out of the story. I think it may be the way the 'first person' narrates the tale.
This is a clever ghost story. Not tied to the predictability of a lot that it shares its genre with. It's not too long so you can fly through it. It isn't too stylised to make you struggle with the flow. I just didn't enjoy it as much as I enjoy other spooky tales. Or as much as I enjoyed Susan Hill's first Simon Serailler book. I really enjoyed that. In fact I must pick the rest of the series up.
3.5 out of 5 pawprints
Total so far, Books - 32, Pages -9,958
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