alexandriam_rose 's review for:

The Betrayals by Bridget Collins

4.0

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First, I went into this book pretty blind—ironically the books keeps things pretty vague too, haha— and I'm not familiar with the author or her previous work. It was a "oh this sounds interesting and got the audiobook from the library.". Really loved the writing style and how that set the mysterious, obscure, vague, weird vibes of this book set in a seemingly familiar but undisclosed location in an unknown European county in some time period - fyi - you will still not fully understand aspects of the book or the world/alt-history after finishing it. The audiobook with different narrators for the different characters was well-done. All that being said, it is good to know going in that it is slooow paced and lots of description/time spent in character's thoughts. But I can see how it might have been done to good effect to create this tense narrative and dangerous environment leading up to some big reveals and events. I'm not sure if I can say if I liked this book or not, but it was very intriguing and interesting execution.