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emily_smally 's review for:
Grey Dog
by Elliott Gish
This book was so dark I loved it! I'm not usually one for novels with a historical setting, but the premise of this intrigued me enough to give it a go. The story follows a schoolteacher, who is nearly 30 and unable to find work elsewhere due to a scandal, arriving in a very small town to take up her new post. From there many unsettling things begin to happen but she manages to make a few friends and enjoy teaching her new class. However, things start to get creepier and she becomes more and more impacted by them, something that apparently happened to the previous holder of her post too...
This story is told through her personal account in a journal of sorts, so of course a highly unreliable narrator, you can feel her descent into paranoia and in the last 150 pages or so, ecstasy.
Honestly, this was so unnerving throughout, with a cast of really interesting characters with believable backstories of their own all coming together to create an atmosphere of isolation and mystery.
Thank you to NetGalley and ECW Press for providing an eARC for me to review.
This story is told through her personal account in a journal of sorts, so of course a highly unreliable narrator, you can feel her descent into paranoia and in the last 150 pages or so, ecstasy.
Honestly, this was so unnerving throughout, with a cast of really interesting characters with believable backstories of their own all coming together to create an atmosphere of isolation and mystery.
Thank you to NetGalley and ECW Press for providing an eARC for me to review.