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lushbug's review against another edition
2.0
This started of well and actually reminded me of the Rebecca a bit, but I felt it lost its way half way through turning into a lame thriller.
All in all a decent enough thriller for those that like the genre.
All in all a decent enough thriller for those that like the genre.
natashaw's review against another edition
4.0
A good easy read... blend between a paranormal mystery and psycologial thriller!
Rachel didnt have a great childhood but turns her life around and marries her prince charming complete with a lovely stepson. After Rachel moves to Cornwall to live at her new husbands old family home things start to take a chilling turn... the past collides with the future with spine tingling results.
I really enjoyed this and was surprised by the twist at the end!
Many other reviewers complain there is too much about Cornish mines but I am surprised by this... yes the mines are described BUT I think it is totally appropriate for the story and their part within the plot.
Thank you to NetGalley for the ARC in return for an honest review :-)
Rachel didnt have a great childhood but turns her life around and marries her prince charming complete with a lovely stepson. After Rachel moves to Cornwall to live at her new husbands old family home things start to take a chilling turn... the past collides with the future with spine tingling results.
I really enjoyed this and was surprised by the twist at the end!
Many other reviewers complain there is too much about Cornish mines but I am surprised by this... yes the mines are described BUT I think it is totally appropriate for the story and their part within the plot.
Thank you to NetGalley for the ARC in return for an honest review :-)
melissalynne81's review against another edition
2.0
I received a copy of this from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.
I was so excited to get this book. It sounded so good. But I was so bored reading it. I kept on skipping paragraphs trying to get through it. I was thinking about what book I wanted to read next. I just couldn't stay focused on this book.
About halfway through the book, it did start getting better, but at that point, I wasn't really interested anymore.
It wasn't a satisfying read for me.
I was so excited to get this book. It sounded so good. But I was so bored reading it. I kept on skipping paragraphs trying to get through it. I was thinking about what book I wanted to read next. I just couldn't stay focused on this book.
About halfway through the book, it did start getting better, but at that point, I wasn't really interested anymore.
It wasn't a satisfying read for me.
goldenbeebookshop's review against another edition
4.0
This was a wildly different book from where it started to where it ended, and throughout, I simply couldn't put it down.
So much of the physical landscape felt like another character, an enhancement of the plot, similar to how Tremayne used the stark landscape to build tension in "The Ice Twins". In this case, the family home, Carnhallow, most certainly feels like another character in the small cast of unreliable narrators.
I don't want to spoil the twists and turns, especially since so many of them were brilliantly unexpected, but the last quarter of the book excels like a high speed train while you try to figure things out at the same moment that Rachel tries to.
I highly recommend this book for fans of "The Ice Twins" and anyone who enjoys the kind of book best read during the daylight.
So much of the physical landscape felt like another character, an enhancement of the plot, similar to how Tremayne used the stark landscape to build tension in "The Ice Twins". In this case, the family home, Carnhallow, most certainly feels like another character in the small cast of unreliable narrators.
I don't want to spoil the twists and turns, especially since so many of them were brilliantly unexpected, but the last quarter of the book excels like a high speed train while you try to figure things out at the same moment that Rachel tries to.
I highly recommend this book for fans of "The Ice Twins" and anyone who enjoys the kind of book best read during the daylight.
mratina's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
slow-paced
4.0
lauren_ofs's review against another edition
1.0
I had to read 250 pages in one go it was so hard to put down once you get through the slow start!
alliways's review against another edition
3.0
*Read for Around the Year in 52 Books 2017, challenge #16: A Mystery*
3.5 Stars! I did enjoy this, it was creepy and suspenseful but I keep comparing it to her first book, The Ice Twins, which I LOVED and this one just didn't do as much for me as that one.
3.5 Stars! I did enjoy this, it was creepy and suspenseful but I keep comparing it to her first book, The Ice Twins, which I LOVED and this one just didn't do as much for me as that one.
shallwehavetea's review against another edition
5.0
I absolutely loved this book! From the very first moment I was hooked and I couldn't put this book down. Having my own family ancestors traced back to Cornwall made me feel right at home with this novel, the mines and cliff faces are something I know a lot about.
The Fire Child by S.K. Tremayne is filled with nothing but edge of the seat suspense, a ghost story wrapped up inside a thriller, wrapped up in a mystery. We follow along with Rachel, learning about her backstory slowly as we move through the book. We start of with Rachel and David in his ancestral home, a beautiful old home in Cornwall.
Based over a few months, we have a count down to Christmas where David's son has made a startling prediction, a prediction which puts fear and worry in to Rachel's own mind. Not only that, the more she learns about David's first wife, Nina's death, the more she starts to wonder, what really had happened the Christmas she had died.
Struggling to come to terms which start to happen, as well as the danger she starts to feel both, within the house and her own mind. With a step son who says things which scare her and who seems to be close at times and then scarily distant at others, Rachel starts to question everything she knows.
And then the worst thing which could happen happens. David changes from the perfect husband to someone she doesn't really know any more. With him being banished from the house, Rachel has to defend herself and her mental status while trying to look after a young boy who refused to leave the house, but doesn't talk to her.
Everything starts to come to the boiling point as Christmas day starts getting closer and closer. Will Jamie's predictions come true for Rachel or will everything work out for the good and better?
The Fire Child by S.K. Tremayne is filled with nothing but edge of the seat suspense, a ghost story wrapped up inside a thriller, wrapped up in a mystery. We follow along with Rachel, learning about her backstory slowly as we move through the book. We start of with Rachel and David in his ancestral home, a beautiful old home in Cornwall.
Based over a few months, we have a count down to Christmas where David's son has made a startling prediction, a prediction which puts fear and worry in to Rachel's own mind. Not only that, the more she learns about David's first wife, Nina's death, the more she starts to wonder, what really had happened the Christmas she had died.
Struggling to come to terms which start to happen, as well as the danger she starts to feel both, within the house and her own mind. With a step son who says things which scare her and who seems to be close at times and then scarily distant at others, Rachel starts to question everything she knows.
And then the worst thing which could happen happens. David changes from the perfect husband to someone she doesn't really know any more. With him being banished from the house, Rachel has to defend herself and her mental status while trying to look after a young boy who refused to leave the house, but doesn't talk to her.
Everything starts to come to the boiling point as Christmas day starts getting closer and closer. Will Jamie's predictions come true for Rachel or will everything work out for the good and better?
brewtifulfiction's review against another edition
5.0
Like the authors previous book, this one is a hard one to review without giving away the twist and it needs to be kept a surprise as it is so cleverly done. I wrote my full review over on my blog but I thought it only fair to share some here too....
The story begins with Rachel having just got back from honeymoon, moving into the grand Carnhallow House in Cornwall. Having given up her life in London, her days will now be spent restoring this rather large abode and making it a home again.
Her husband David works away a lot so it is also partly her responsibility to look after his son, her step-son Jamie, along with her mother in law who is showing strong signs of dementia and their live in help Cassie.
At first glance things couldn't be anymore perfect, she seems to have a good relationship with her step-son and Rachel has taken to coastal life like a duck to water but slowly cracks appear and that perfect life that she so longed for doesn't appear to be all as it seems.
"You will be dead by Christmas"
"fingers of fire reaching up, inside, clawing into the house..."
This is an absolute page turner. Hauntingly beautiful with an abundance of mystery making it truly eerie. Every time I thought I'd guessed the twist I was proven wrong in the next paragraph. Fast paced, I was hooked from the first pages right to the last. An absolute must read!
The story begins with Rachel having just got back from honeymoon, moving into the grand Carnhallow House in Cornwall. Having given up her life in London, her days will now be spent restoring this rather large abode and making it a home again.
Her husband David works away a lot so it is also partly her responsibility to look after his son, her step-son Jamie, along with her mother in law who is showing strong signs of dementia and their live in help Cassie.
At first glance things couldn't be anymore perfect, she seems to have a good relationship with her step-son and Rachel has taken to coastal life like a duck to water but slowly cracks appear and that perfect life that she so longed for doesn't appear to be all as it seems.
"You will be dead by Christmas"
"fingers of fire reaching up, inside, clawing into the house..."
This is an absolute page turner. Hauntingly beautiful with an abundance of mystery making it truly eerie. Every time I thought I'd guessed the twist I was proven wrong in the next paragraph. Fast paced, I was hooked from the first pages right to the last. An absolute must read!