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A review by chessakat
Granite Harbor by Peter Nichols
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.25
I really enjoyed this audiobook!
This one is really hard to talk about without giving anything away!
Loved the small town setting in Maine; the novelist-turned-detective father who is the center point of the story; the absolutely creepy method of murder the killer employs; the slow unwinding of a backstory; the way the parents are portrayed, and how realistic the teenager-parent relationships felt.
Didn’t love that the narrator had a pretty muddled Manchester accent for our main detective and that he kept mispronouncing “coif” for the entire book (you might wonder how many times this could POSSIBLY be an issue; it’s 3.)
This was just a very evenly paced thriller with a bit of horror story that built to a great conclusion. The denouement was very satisfying as well.
This one is really hard to talk about without giving anything away!
Loved the small town setting in Maine; the novelist-turned-detective father who is the center point of the story; the absolutely creepy method of murder the killer employs; the slow unwinding of a backstory; the way the parents are portrayed, and how realistic the teenager-parent relationships felt.
Didn’t love that the narrator had a pretty muddled Manchester accent for our main detective and that he kept mispronouncing “coif” for the entire book (you might wonder how many times this could POSSIBLY be an issue; it’s 3.)
This was just a very evenly paced thriller with a bit of horror story that built to a great conclusion. The denouement was very satisfying as well.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Blood, Kidnapping, Child death, Animal cruelty, Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, Body horror, Death, and Murder
Moderate: Child abuse and Death of parent