A review by stephen_on_a_jet_plane
Wakenhyrst by Michelle Paver

3.0

Mixed feelings about this one, I like maud as a protagonist and obviously paver writes about her coming of age with vivid conviction but I feel that some of the feminist themes feel a bit ham fisted and the chapters told in first person from mauds fathers journal are ludicrously artificial. I can’t buy him as a character you might as well call him Mean Papa Patriarchy and give him a cartoonish twirly moustache. It lets the good, atmospheric gothic tragedy sections down.