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And the Trees Crept in
by Dawn Kurtagich
Written: 13/12/21.
This is an odd one, because I really liked the overall product, and yet... the dialogue was often hammy and stilted. Characters could swing wildly from one mindset to another on every other page. It felt in some moments very juvenile and in others disconcertingly adult. So going by individual moments, I shouldn't have liked this book as much as I did.
And I really did. I'm not sure what it is, but something in this book really gripped onto me and left an impression. I do loe a good horror, and struggle to find it in modern books. I love a story about keeping a horror out of a place. A fortress, even one as decrepit as La Baume, makes me feel in on something.
I liked the twist at the end but feel it would have been better without the epilogue. For me, these things took away from the horror. Yes. Would have been better left to the imagination.
The whole way through, the story gave me fairytale vibes, which was why I brushed off the strangeness. It was all a bit Grimm's.
I struggled with liking Silla, which I think was the point, and with liking Nori, which I think wasn't. But I liked Cath and Gowan, and the Creeper Man as a villain interested me greatly. I wonder what La Baume does mean...
Also, the poems that opened each chapter were extremely hit-0r-miss to me. A reminder, perhaps, that not every poem needs to rhyme, or indeed should they.
This is an odd one, because I really liked the overall product, and yet... the dialogue was often hammy and stilted. Characters could swing wildly from one mindset to another on every other page. It felt in some moments very juvenile and in others disconcertingly adult. So going by individual moments, I shouldn't have liked this book as much as I did.
And I really did. I'm not sure what it is, but something in this book really gripped onto me and left an impression. I do loe a good horror, and struggle to find it in modern books. I love a story about keeping a horror out of a place. A fortress, even one as decrepit as La Baume, makes me feel in on something.
I liked the twist at the end but feel it would have been better without the epilogue.
Spoiler
That, and the whole saga of going to watch Gowan discover the bodies of Silla, Nori and Cath. The discovery of the bodies and the afterlife segment following. Let us wonder what happened to their spirits next. Let the tragedy linger.The whole way through, the story gave me fairytale vibes, which was why I brushed off the strangeness.
Spoiler
The vague war on the horizon, the ghost town, the way Silla and co. seemed to exist the way they did for years, and Gowan's strange appearance. In the end I wasn't wrong.I struggled with liking Silla, which I think was the point, and with liking Nori, which I think wasn't. But I liked Cath and Gowan, and the Creeper Man as a villain interested me greatly. I wonder what La Baume does mean...
Also, the poems that opened each chapter were extremely hit-0r-miss to me. A reminder, perhaps, that not every poem needs to rhyme, or indeed should they.