A review by colleen987
The Dark by Emma Haughton
4.0
With thanks to Emma Haughton and Hodder & Stoughton for an advanced readers copy of this book.
I'm so annoyed by this one, on the one hand what a fantastic atmospheric novel. The writer has a creepily good ability to make you feel claustrophobic in your own home. Brilliant suspenseful writing, that really is a page turner! (far too many books around claim that title but this one truly deserves it).
That brings me to the annoyance, there's so many twists and turns, a cast of characters full of secrets. But what certainly isn't a secret is who the murderer is. In what could have been a fantastic book its such a shame the central mystery is figured out by the reader so early in.
I'm so annoyed by this one, on the one hand what a fantastic atmospheric novel. The writer has a creepily good ability to make you feel claustrophobic in your own home. Brilliant suspenseful writing, that really is a page turner! (far too many books around claim that title but this one truly deserves it).
That brings me to the annoyance, there's so many twists and turns, a cast of characters full of secrets. But what certainly isn't a secret is who the murderer is. In what could have been a fantastic book its such a shame the central mystery is figured out by the reader so early in.