A review by prdgreads
Ash Mountain by Helen Fitzgerald
5.0
you’re going to roll your eyes because I’m going to say it again, I knew nothing about this book going into it and I’ve never read anything by Helen Fitzgerald before, but a friend of mine adores her writing and told me I had to give this one a go, and my god was she right.
The story starts off with Fran being woken up by the town siren, with nothing online to tell her why she goes in search of her daughter Vonny and realises that the emergency is a gigantic bush fire!
Fran has just begrudgingly returned to the small town she grew up in, her dad is ill and needs full time care, it’s not that she doesn’t want to care for her dad, she just doesn’t want to go back to Ash Mountain, straight away you get the feeling that she’s hiding something & I personally couldn’t wait to figure out what it was.
The book is told from too different timelines – the now, which obviously goes without saying is present day, and the then, which follows Fran at various stages of her life growing up. The background parts are integral to the story and they’re the chapters that hold the most mystery and really pack a punch!
The present day chapters and events lead up to the bush fire that puts everyone she loves in danger, will they make it out alive?
Will Fran figure out exactly why being in Ash Mountain makes her feel uneasy?
The joy of a thriller is all the twists and turns, trying to work out if you can figure out where the story is going and then being proved wrong over and over again, this story does that multiple times and I just couldn’t put it down.
The story starts off with Fran being woken up by the town siren, with nothing online to tell her why she goes in search of her daughter Vonny and realises that the emergency is a gigantic bush fire!
Fran has just begrudgingly returned to the small town she grew up in, her dad is ill and needs full time care, it’s not that she doesn’t want to care for her dad, she just doesn’t want to go back to Ash Mountain, straight away you get the feeling that she’s hiding something & I personally couldn’t wait to figure out what it was.
The book is told from too different timelines – the now, which obviously goes without saying is present day, and the then, which follows Fran at various stages of her life growing up. The background parts are integral to the story and they’re the chapters that hold the most mystery and really pack a punch!
The present day chapters and events lead up to the bush fire that puts everyone she loves in danger, will they make it out alive?
Will Fran figure out exactly why being in Ash Mountain makes her feel uneasy?
The joy of a thriller is all the twists and turns, trying to work out if you can figure out where the story is going and then being proved wrong over and over again, this story does that multiple times and I just couldn’t put it down.