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Crow's Cottage by John Bowen
3.0
dark mysterious tense

Overall a pretty decent read, albeit a bit skimpy on the horror side. The plot was engaging and the story was structured nicely, but the writing was very amateurish and the book is in serious need of editing - there was just an inexcusable number of errors and I can't figure out what the author has against commas. It really throws a wrench my flow of reading if I constantly have to go back and read sentences again to try and make sense of them. I also didn't understand why the author uses full names for a few characters, but just first names for others. A bit of an odd choice.

The last chapter felt very rushed.
I knew quite early that either Nick or James was involved somehow, likely through blackmail
, but the way it was unravelled in the last chapter was too clumsy and made Chloe seem like a rambling lunatic. For her to jump from
what Eamonn said about Faulks being involved with a doctor or a surgeon to nurses and Nick
was just such a huge reach without anything leading to it, so it seemed like the author was unsure how to tie it up.