Reviews - Les ombres d'Adelaide Hills

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Les ombres d'Adelaide Hills

Kate Morton

3.94 AVERAGE

tbo2727's review against another edition

3.0

dark mysterious sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

christineehm's review against another edition

4.0

This was my second Kate Morton (The Clockmaker’s Daughter being the first), and I found it to be a great improvement. I struggled to get through the prologue, but when Percy makes his big discovery of the dead Turner family (again—this is prologue, so not a spoiler!), I was hooked.

Though I was able to guess pieces of the big reveal, I certainly didn’t guess the biggest moments, and I enjoyed the ending immensely. I like that, looking back, all the careful evidence is there. I hate when authors just throw random plot points together and hope the ride will distract from the plot holes, but Morton doesn’t disappoint.

I wouldn’t want to scrap any of the important details needed for everything to fit, but at times this felt long for the sake of being long…like Morton really wanted a tome with her name on it. I think it would have to be on the longer side, but I feel like it could’ve been 50-100 pages shorter, which keeps me from giving it a 5.

This is a sleepy, powerful, and satisfying mystery. Some describe it as a thriller, but that seems silly to me given the pacing.

hopiescopie's review against another edition

3.5

mysterious medium-paced

bronwynreads's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

stargazer20's review against another edition

4.75

emotional mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

hollemo_reads's review against another edition

5.0

This was so well done. When I wasn’t reading it, I was theorising about all the things that could have happened and it kept me guessing till the very end. What a brilliant read! I think I’ll have to add some more Kate Morton books to my TBR list!