A review by emmarj
The Haunting of Beatrix Greene: Vol. 1 by Rachel Hawkins
3.0
I received an ARC of The Haunting of Beatrix Greene free from the publisher in exchange for my honest review.
I wasn't sure what I was getting into when I saw that The Haunting of Beatrix Greene was labeled "volume one" but I really enjoyed this format! The volume is broken into episodes which seem written perfectly to translate to TV. Based on the ending, I can imagine this spinning off into further seasons or volumes of episodes of Beatrix's adventures. Each episode ends on high tension, speeding the reader along the story. We also get alternating POVs within the episodes which I think makes everything feel more tense.
The way the characters are fleshed out (or not) and the way the romance appears in this volume are not great though. There is an instalove between our two main characters. It's very unfortunate because, with more room to breathe, I could see this turning into a multi-volume slowburn enemies to lovers type of scenario. As it stands, their romance is pretty weird. It's so weird, in fact, that I thought the house was possessing them and making them act crazy.
I wasn't sure what I was getting into when I saw that The Haunting of Beatrix Greene was labeled "volume one" but I really enjoyed this format! The volume is broken into episodes which seem written perfectly to translate to TV. Based on the ending, I can imagine this spinning off into further seasons or volumes of episodes of Beatrix's adventures. Each episode ends on high tension, speeding the reader along the story. We also get alternating POVs within the episodes which I think makes everything feel more tense.
The way the characters are fleshed out (or not) and the way the romance appears in this volume are not great though. There is an instalove between our two main characters. It's very unfortunate because, with more room to breathe, I could see this turning into a multi-volume slowburn enemies to lovers type of scenario. As it stands, their romance is pretty weird. It's so weird, in fact, that I thought the house was possessing them and making them act crazy.