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obsidian_blue 's review for:
Greenwich Park
by Katherine Faulkner
Please note that I received this via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review.
So this was a little all over the place, but honestly it works in the end. The book jumps around a lot and it's hard to trace some stuff, but after we get to the 60 percent point things start to hang together. The ending/reveal was a surprise and I liked it.
"Greenwich Park" follows mom to be, Helen. Helen is happily married to Daniel and after some disappointing miscarriages, it seems her latest pregnancy will go okay. Even though her husband seems distant, and something at his firm with her brother Rory seems to be stressing him out. Helen feeling a bit lost meets another mom to be, Rachel, at her pre-natal class. Before she knows it, she is hanging out with Rachel all of the time, and Rachel has somehow moved into her home. When Rachel disappears though, the police, and Helen's friends wonder what happened to Rachel and could it be linked back to something that happened years ago.
Faulkner follows Helen, her sister in law, Serena, and her other brother's girlfriend Katie throughout this book. We also get some quick chapters with an unknown narrator at times too.
I thought Helen was a bit of a mess and unreliable narrator. But as the book goes on you start to realize something is going on there. Something not good.
I actually felt for Serena throughout the book since Helen seems exhausting, and she realizes something is up with her husband.
Katie is kind of the audience stand-in. She's a reporter delving into a case of rape and meeting a detective who is leading that case. And then she starts to investigate when Rachel goes missing.
I thought the writing at times was quite lyrical and I thought Helen's points of views more than most puts you into the book at times.
The flow though was a bit off here and there as I started off. I didn't know where things were going, but started to feel annoyed by Helen. But as I kept reading I found myself becoming more engaged in the story and wanting to know what was going on with Rachel and how she tied into these other people in this book.
The setting of Greenwich Park at times feels magical and then sinister. Helen's home which she is so proud of at times seems as if it is falling apart and I just thought that was a pretty nice sense of symbolism as she tries to keep it clean, but someone is always dirtying it up.
The ending was very good. You get a partial reveal and then you things are over until you get to the final chapter. Then things come out in the open and you feel a bit like you were had.
So this was a little all over the place, but honestly it works in the end. The book jumps around a lot and it's hard to trace some stuff, but after we get to the 60 percent point things start to hang together. The ending/reveal was a surprise and I liked it.
"Greenwich Park" follows mom to be, Helen. Helen is happily married to Daniel and after some disappointing miscarriages, it seems her latest pregnancy will go okay. Even though her husband seems distant, and something at his firm with her brother Rory seems to be stressing him out. Helen feeling a bit lost meets another mom to be, Rachel, at her pre-natal class. Before she knows it, she is hanging out with Rachel all of the time, and Rachel has somehow moved into her home. When Rachel disappears though, the police, and Helen's friends wonder what happened to Rachel and could it be linked back to something that happened years ago.
Faulkner follows Helen, her sister in law, Serena, and her other brother's girlfriend Katie throughout this book. We also get some quick chapters with an unknown narrator at times too.
I thought Helen was a bit of a mess and unreliable narrator. But as the book goes on you start to realize something is going on there. Something not good.
I actually felt for Serena throughout the book since Helen seems exhausting, and she realizes something is up with her husband.
Katie is kind of the audience stand-in. She's a reporter delving into a case of rape and meeting a detective who is leading that case. And then she starts to investigate when Rachel goes missing.
I thought the writing at times was quite lyrical and I thought Helen's points of views more than most puts you into the book at times.
The flow though was a bit off here and there as I started off. I didn't know where things were going, but started to feel annoyed by Helen. But as I kept reading I found myself becoming more engaged in the story and wanting to know what was going on with Rachel and how she tied into these other people in this book.
The setting of Greenwich Park at times feels magical and then sinister. Helen's home which she is so proud of at times seems as if it is falling apart and I just thought that was a pretty nice sense of symbolism as she tries to keep it clean, but someone is always dirtying it up.
The ending was very good. You get a partial reveal and then you things are over until you get to the final chapter. Then things come out in the open and you feel a bit like you were had.