My best friend recommended this book to me and now I recommend it to anyone. Anyone who likes a mystery, urban fantasy or horror.
Three sisters go missing on New Year's eve in Scotland. Three months later, they reappear with no clothes, good condition, except from having identitical crescent-shaped scars at the base of their throats. Then over a decade later one of the sisters goes missing and the other two are out to find out where she has gone. But the past decade did not sail by with unicorns and rainbows and mysterious things happens to some of the sisters. Plus, what really happened to them when they went missing?
Sutherland was able to create a bittersweet world laced with imperfections and eeriness that hung to the plot and wouldn't let go. With each plot twist there was a deeper from of characterisation both indirectly through their past and present actions and directly through the characters' realistic reactions from each horrifying situation they were put in.
When it was revealed as to the mystery of where the missing sister is and what their scars mean I truly wanted to throw up which is a good thing. The resolution was brilliant with a true bittersweet reality of not all truth is wanted to be learnt. Despite this it resolved it in a fashion that did not leave anything unsaid.
Three sisters go missing on New Year's eve in Scotland. Three months later, they reappear with no clothes, good condition, except from having identitical crescent-shaped scars at the base of their throats. Then over a decade later one of the sisters goes missing and the other two are out to find out where she has gone. But the past decade did not sail by with unicorns and rainbows and mysterious things happens to some of the sisters. Plus, what really happened to them when they went missing?
Sutherland was able to create a bittersweet world laced with imperfections and eeriness that hung to the plot and wouldn't let go. With each plot twist there was a deeper from of characterisation both indirectly through their past and present actions and directly through the characters' realistic reactions from each horrifying situation they were put in.
When it was revealed as to the mystery of where the missing sister is and what their scars mean I truly wanted to throw up which is a good thing. The resolution was brilliant with a true bittersweet reality of not all truth is wanted to be learnt. Despite this it resolved it in a fashion that did not leave anything unsaid.