atmospheric and creepy in its slow crawling realistic horror that i think leaves it out completely to the reader if you want to have it be a supernatural or a nightmarish but real horror (and let’s face it sometimes the real horror and nightmares one has to suffer through are more horrific than any supernatural creature could be!) 


for not even being 200 pages this book took me a few days for a number of reasons but mostly because its slow trotting pace didn’t make me want to just read this book in one sitting (as i have done with both “nettle & bone” and “a house with good bones” by this author because i just got sucked so into those stories that i couldn’t stop).


that doesn’t mean anything negative - i enjoyed this story a lot! not as much as “what moves the dead” which to me had even more atmospheric creepiness and i loved the build up and conclusion of that book more then this one. 

this one was good but i felt as if the longer build up with most of the books pages over 120 of its 155 pages building up and then wrapping the story up basically in 10 - 15 pages at the most before wrapping up the characters…. it felt a bit rushed for me. especially since we really didn’t get a good explanation. 

and yes as i already said that leaves the reader the option of deciding for themselves if it’s supernatural or not i prefer clearer endings or at least ones that then show more of the characters aftermath after the ordeal and show me how they are doing now - which we do get a little but again too little and a little too rushed feeling. 



overall this is a great eery read and fantastic for the cold rainy foggy autumn night and a big cup of tea or two and just be swept up in the  atmosphere and setting.