A review by marylong
The House at Tyneford by Natasha Solomons

2.0

there are so many things wrong with this books that i don’t even know where to begin. first of all, the first 80 pages are SO slow. like, i wanted to just give up after taking two hours to read that far. but, alas, i pushed through and it was worth it… for about 120 more pages. then it was downhill from there. it went from being too slow to feeling way too rushed, like the author didn’t know how to best get to the ending she wanted, so she just kind of threw it all together at once. i mean, let’s be honest, everything good about this book came from kit and elise so WHY did he have to die??? and, much more importantly, WHY DID SHE HAVE TO END UP WITH HIS FATHER????? i simply wanted to throw the book across the room when i read the line “daniel is the second man i have ever kissed” LIKE yeah girl and the first was HIS SON. why it feels so viscerally wrong to be idk but it def ruined the book for me. so yeah, there goes 24 hours i will never get back!