A review by bigotterbooks
Suspicion by Alexandra Monir
3.0
Great book. "There is something hidden in the maze." When I read that tagline I knew I had to read the book! Those are the last words Imogen hears from her father before a fire kills her parents and destroys the lush gardens at the family estate. Rockford Manor is a great setting with secrets galore! Imogen returns to England seven years later and the plot takes off with the real story of the family, Rockford Manor and just what is in the maze. It reads like a gothic romance but there is a paranormal twist.
The actual writing is fabulous-Monir can definitely set the scene and her characters are perfect. The problems I had with the book were that the different bits didn't work together all that well. By that I mean, the romance was good but a bit too forced-you will figure out how that ends WAY before the characters do! The paranormal part was fun and could have been a whole stand alone book just about that part. In this book it felt to me like it was thrown in to make the book more marketable to the YA crowd instead of being all that necessary in the end to make the plot work. All in all, I did enjoy Suspicion and if you can ignore the little bits that don't make sense and just enjoy the way Monir weaves her story you will find quite a nice book underneath. I was given a copy of the book-the review is my own opinion.
The actual writing is fabulous-Monir can definitely set the scene and her characters are perfect. The problems I had with the book were that the different bits didn't work together all that well. By that I mean, the romance was good but a bit too forced-you will figure out how that ends WAY before the characters do! The paranormal part was fun and could have been a whole stand alone book just about that part. In this book it felt to me like it was thrown in to make the book more marketable to the YA crowd instead of being all that necessary in the end to make the plot work. All in all, I did enjoy Suspicion and if you can ignore the little bits that don't make sense and just enjoy the way Monir weaves her story you will find quite a nice book underneath. I was given a copy of the book-the review is my own opinion.