Scan barcode
A review by writing_inthemountains
The Cry of the Owl by Patricia Highsmith
2.0
Omg this book... I’ve heard of Patricia’s work but I’ve never read her before. But omg... this book is insane. Jenny is engaged with Greg, she feels watched every night, they even consider the house being haunted. The house is in the middle of the woods but they have some neighbours. One night Jenny sees Robert watching her and she just froze. But he starts talking to her, tells her he won’t harm her and in a couple of seconds she invites him inside. They become friends, Jenny leaves Greg, falls in love with Robert. Strange right? Hell yeah.
Robert is going through a divorce with his wife from New York, a thing Greg finds about. His wife tells Greg how insane Robert is and that he should take Jenny far away from him because Robert is dangerous. Now, the atmosphere of this book doesn’t say much. We don’t know if Robert is harmful, or if Jenny is a nice person, or if Robert’s wife is telling the truth. All I can say for sure is that, at the moment I’m 36% in the book and nothing happened, good or bad. But it’s eerie, it makes me paranoid, anxious, keeps me waiting like something strange will happen.
Oh, and something strange does happen. Robert is a nice guy but a death magnet... The book is eerie, not good not bad. You can read it on a plane, it’s short. I don’t know what to think about it, didn’t hate it, didn’t love it.
Robert is going through a divorce with his wife from New York, a thing Greg finds about. His wife tells Greg how insane Robert is and that he should take Jenny far away from him because Robert is dangerous. Now, the atmosphere of this book doesn’t say much. We don’t know if Robert is harmful, or if Jenny is a nice person, or if Robert’s wife is telling the truth. All I can say for sure is that, at the moment I’m 36% in the book and nothing happened, good or bad. But it’s eerie, it makes me paranoid, anxious, keeps me waiting like something strange will happen.
Oh, and something strange does happen. Robert is a nice guy but a death magnet... The book is eerie, not good not bad. You can read it on a plane, it’s short. I don’t know what to think about it, didn’t hate it, didn’t love it.