There is a few things that made me unable to like this book:
-the strong references to motherhood that truly only a mother could really relate to. As I am not a mother myself, I found these large chunks of the story boring and irrelevant. Not to mention, this takes up the first 60% of the story while the actually “thriller” section is poorly squeezed into the last bit of the book.
-the wish washy detective. The main character is claiming her twins have been abducted by a fae-like hag. Of course nobody believes her, including the police who throw her in a mental hospital and close the case, saying she hallucinated everything. In walks our second point of view, the detective. In order for this story to be engaging this detective needed to believe our mother. She doesn’t. She spends time and resources outside of the police department to investigate a closed and forbidden case, while all along not actually believing our mother is a victim. If our detective doesn’t believe her, and the husband doesn’t believe her, and the doctor doesn’t believe her, then why should I?
****SPOILER**** - the unclear ending. Was this a Grimm fairy tale inspired story? Or was this a ghost story? Was the mother telling the truth or is she mentally unstable? We don’t know. Nobody tells us and the writer does not even leave the reader with a clue.
-the strong references to motherhood that truly only a mother could really relate to. As I am not a mother myself, I found these large chunks of the story boring and irrelevant. Not to mention, this takes up the first 60% of the story while the actually “thriller” section is poorly squeezed into the last bit of the book.
-the wish washy detective. The main character is claiming her twins have been abducted by a fae-like hag. Of course nobody believes her, including the police who throw her in a mental hospital and close the case, saying she hallucinated everything. In walks our second point of view, the detective. In order for this story to be engaging this detective needed to believe our mother. She doesn’t. She spends time and resources outside of the police department to investigate a closed and forbidden case, while all along not actually believing our mother is a victim. If our detective doesn’t believe her, and the husband doesn’t believe her, and the doctor doesn’t believe her, then why should I?
****SPOILER**** - the unclear ending. Was this a Grimm fairy tale inspired story? Or was this a ghost story? Was the mother telling the truth or is she mentally unstable? We don’t know. Nobody tells us and the writer does not even leave the reader with a clue.