dorottyagoston's Reviews (71)

Deeply tense; each story gives you the feeling of a prickling-tingling sensation under the skin. Over and over again, Armfield creates something big, something gore, troubling but at the same time fundamentally inviting, like a wound you can’t stop picking on. A thing, or more so a feeling that you might begin to understand towards the end of each story but in the end you’re left with all your questions unanswered but ravelling in this unfinished, mesmerising unease.

The Evelyn Hugo storyline was emotional, captivating and simply put brilliant. I would give it an easy 5 stars. However, and it is a big however, that’s precisely the reason why the contrast between the frame (Monique) story and the Evelyn story was so shocking. The frame storyline was strikingly weak and it tried way too hard to be “millennial” which came across forced. I wonder how an author who brought to life the story of Evelyn Hugo can write such a weak (in lack of other words) other “main”character.