Looking Glass Sound

I just finished Looking Glass Sound by Catriona Ward and here are my thoughts!!


Whistler bay has its dark past and when Wilder Harlow returns to write his last book, it brings back memories of the past.

As a youth, the place where he met his two friends, Nat and Harper. The summer was the best and worst of his life. A terrible evil that they discover in the coves off the bay.

Problem is Wilder is starting to lose his mind. He is finding things in the cabin, things that shouldn't be there and a woman who keeps calling out to him for help. Who's writing the chapters he keeps finding upon waking?

Was coming back a mistake? Will it be the last thing he ever does?

This book was so weird. You know that feeling you get where you can't trust what you are reading? I had this all the way through and when it finally got to the crux, I still felt that feeling. It's one heck of a complex book and the journey was stepping into a building that is so dark you cannot see a thing and not know which way is what!

The character development was the saving grace for me. Each character story wove itself back onto each other and it was so intricate but it worked for me. I have never read such a mindF of a book before. I don't know how I feel even now and I finished it a couple of days ago. I turned to my husband and said, what just happened! I even gave him the cliffnotes and he was like OMG!

I did really love the idea of the storyline but I was a little confused in places which I know was the point but it was hard to wrap my head around. I am not going to lie, I need more books like this. The kind of books that takes all the rules and throws them out the window. I'm sure others will hate it. It is not the kind of read that you can leisurely read, this is far from a beach read but if you like those complicated storylines that are beautifully written by an author with a gift for the unusual.... Grab this book right now.

Trying to rate it was a nightmare. This book had me second guessing myself!

4 stars. I couldn't read books like this all the time but it was worth the read for me.

Thank you @netgalley and @torbooks for my gifted copy!