Rhiannon
Estranged brothers Nate and Jake are still haunted by the night that turned their childhood into a life of overwhelming guilt and grief. The damage done to them has preyed upon their psyches into adulthood and the reverberations have become unavoidable. Now in their late 20s they must confront the horror of their nightmare before it destroys them, facing one of the creepiest, haunted places I’ve experienced.
Blaine’s newest offering has some serious parental trauma issues – his characters are consistently dealing with parental loss of some kind (death, abandonment, abuse) and honestly, I’m really starting to worry about Blaine. He handles these horrors with a finesse and refined elegance that has become his signature – he hides his horror in beauty and stillness that creeps into your subconscious and takes root.
Reading this book late into the night I found myself jumping at every little bump and sigh in my old house (of course it’s been very stormy in my part of the world), getting up several times to repeatedly ‘check on things’ and reassure myself. This has been a dark, wintery read that has left me unsettled in all the right ways.
My thanks to the author for the ARC. All opinions are my own.
Originally posted at www.instagram.com.
Estranged brothers Nate and Jake are still haunted by the night that turned their childhood into a life of overwhelming guilt and grief. The damage done to them has preyed upon their psyches into adulthood and the reverberations have become unavoidable. Now in their late 20s they must confront the horror of their nightmare before it destroys them, facing one of the creepiest, haunted places I’ve experienced.
Blaine’s newest offering has some serious parental trauma issues – his characters are consistently dealing with parental loss of some kind (death, abandonment, abuse) and honestly, I’m really starting to worry about Blaine. He handles these horrors with a finesse and refined elegance that has become his signature – he hides his horror in beauty and stillness that creeps into your subconscious and takes root.
Reading this book late into the night I found myself jumping at every little bump and sigh in my old house (of course it’s been very stormy in my part of the world), getting up several times to repeatedly ‘check on things’ and reassure myself. This has been a dark, wintery read that has left me unsettled in all the right ways.
My thanks to the author for the ARC. All opinions are my own.
Originally posted at www.instagram.com.