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Title: The House Between TidesAuthor: Sarah Maine
Published: 2014
Language: English
Pages: 380
Rating: 2/5
Summary:
A woman returns to her ancestral home after her last living relatives have died and finds a mysterious skeleton on the estate, leading her to try and find out who it is and what secrets lie in the past of her family.
Review:
I don't have a whole lot to say about this particular book. It wasn't a bad book by any means, it just wasn't my cup of tea.
I picked this up because it's been hailed as perfect for fans of Kate Morton; now, I've read quite a few of Morton's books years ago and really enjoyed them, so I was disappointed when I found I wasn't really enjoying this one. There were some things I liked, don't get me wrong; I think the setting was pretty good, I liked all the descriptions of nature and birdlife and there's some great atmosphere in parts.
The story is told through dual perspective, so we follow one person in modern times and one back in the day and I found that I was more interested in the historical perspective than the modern one. I found our present day main character to be kind of boring and uninteresting sadly, and although I liked the historical perspective and the woman we follow in the past, I wasn't ever completely invested. I also just thought the story was slow and felt kind of long.
There is also a bit of a mystery element to this that drives the story forward and in the beginning I was very intrigued by it, but by the time we'd gotten to the reveal, I found I didn't really care all that much.
For me, this was just an OK, kind of forgettable read, but I think that's just due to my taste and my preferences than any fault of the book.
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