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A review by rsksmith
White Pines by Gemma Amor
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
4.5
Torn between 4.5 and 5, and maybe the audiobook narrator is what’s skewing this a tad down for me because I found the story itself to be fantastic!
A little slow moving, but early on even there were a couple of scenes that literally made my jaw drop, then once it gets cooking we get into real Lovecrafty horror territory and I was bout it bout it.
But back to that narrator, oh boy. I don’t know, her inflection was like listening to a children’s book and I’m FAIRLY sure she mispronounced several words. Like “inland” which I tried searching to see if British folks pronounce inLAND like she did but to no avail. So maybe she’s just British and I’m ignorant but at any rate did lessen my experience a skosh.
A little slow moving, but early on even there were a couple of scenes that literally made my jaw drop, then once it gets cooking we get into real Lovecrafty horror territory and I was bout it bout it.
But back to that narrator, oh boy. I don’t know, her inflection was like listening to a children’s book and I’m FAIRLY sure she mispronounced several words. Like “inland” which I tried searching to see if British folks pronounce inLAND like she did but to no avail. So maybe she’s just British and I’m ignorant but at any rate did lessen my experience a skosh.