Mixed feelings for this book. It has strong, atmospheric writing detailing a lush, dark setting that instantly drew me in. It has an interesting cast of characters, and an engaging premise which is this: Grey's best friend Elora has gone missing and she returns home to La Cachette, her swampy Louisiana hometown to find out what happened to her. The people born here almost all have mysterious gifts and powers, usually subtle, like being able to tell fortunes and commune with spirits; except for her. Or so she thought.
This book is good at tension and stringing you along. But after finishing and looking back on it, not a whole lot actually happens in the story. It takes a while to get somewhere really interesting and I’m not sure the experience as a whole merited the page count. I feel like 100 pages could have been cut. Also... there's only so much twisty drama I can take and the ending throws so much of this at you. The way it resolves everything left me cold.
I appreciated the book for its setting and writing but wish that either there was more substance to the plot, or that the story was cut down to its essentials. It feels... hollow, as is.
This book is good at tension and stringing you along. But after finishing and looking back on it, not a whole lot actually happens in the story. It takes a while to get somewhere really interesting and I’m not sure the experience as a whole merited the page count. I feel like 100 pages could have been cut. Also... there's only so much twisty drama I can take and the ending throws so much of this at you. The way it resolves everything left me cold.
I appreciated the book for its setting and writing but wish that either there was more substance to the plot, or that the story was cut down to its essentials. It feels... hollow, as is.