Cunning Folk

This book came highly recommended and I can see why, it explores interesting themes and a truly nightmarish scenario. I enjoyed the last part of the book but I really struggled to make it through the first 250 + pages where it was slowly building up the situation, the build up didn't work for me because it was just an accumulation with no real surprises. Knowing the book is a novelized version of a potential movie (according the the author's notes at the end of the book) I can see the slow descriptive build up working in a film but in a book, at least for me, it really fell flat.