While I am not one for horror books, usually, this book promised to be somewhat like a gothic novel, and it was.
The main character is taken away to a house she had no idea existed, by a man she's never met, to care for his daughter, after her parents die. It could, on some level, be a reimagining of The Secret Garden, or even Rebecca. But it isn't. However, it is in the same vein as those books, and with all the rules that the main character has to follow, we as the reader immediately know that something is not right in this house.
What I enjoyed about the book was that it took those tropes from gothic novels and put them in the modern-day. The wifi suddenly goes out, and the main character has no way to contact the outside world unless she asks for permission to use this computer.
The Compainion, though not groundbreaking or full of twists and turns, brings an important literary genre into the 21st century and does it without feeling stilted or discombobulated.
The main character is taken away to a house she had no idea existed, by a man she's never met, to care for his daughter, after her parents die. It could, on some level, be a reimagining of The Secret Garden, or even Rebecca. But it isn't. However, it is in the same vein as those books, and with all the rules that the main character has to follow, we as the reader immediately know that something is not right in this house.
What I enjoyed about the book was that it took those tropes from gothic novels and put them in the modern-day. The wifi suddenly goes out, and the main character has no way to contact the outside world unless she asks for permission to use this computer.
The Compainion, though not groundbreaking or full of twists and turns, brings an important literary genre into the 21st century and does it without feeling stilted or discombobulated.