3.5 stars

Let’s talk about Looking Glass Sound.

Overall the writing is beautiful! This is my second Catriona Ward book and I’ve really found that I get sucked in by the writing. It’s ominous and creepy.

The first half of this book feels like a coming of age story (reminiscent of IT). I flew through chapter after chapter all in the span of hours. It was hard to put down.

The second half is where the book fell flat for me. It became repetitive. I won’t say too much to keep this review spoiler free, but a good portion of the last 50% of this book is one of the main characters writing about the events that took place in the first half of the book. So the scenes have already happened with some minor detailed changed.

A lot of plot twists happened in the second half. They were rapid fire, one after the other and I found myself getting a bit lost trying to follow along.

Still, I really liked this book. I just wish the second half was a bit stronger.

Also, the synopsis is kind of deceiving. I thought we’d be jumping into the story with the main character writing about his past in the cabin. Instead we don’t get there until the 50% mark. And the synopsis spoils events that actively take place in the first half of the narrative.

I would suggest going into this one blind! I had skimmed the synopsis, just getting the main idea and thankful missed the spoilers.