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A review by bluefairybug
Lunar by Chloe Openshaw
emotional
mysterious
sad
medium-paced
4.0
First of all, what a beautiful cover this book has. As soon as I saw it I could tell that the house had secrets, and I needed to know what they were.
This was a real mysterious page turner. Fern has recently separated from her husband, and buys the beautiful, but run down Lunar house. Chloe writes with such description that you can really clearly see everything. So often an author can take this too far, and the descriptions become boring, but not here, it was the perfect amount. As well as being in desperate need of modernisation, Lunar has secrets. Mainly the perfectly preserved bedroom of a young child. Everyone Fern meets seems to know what happened, or be connected in some way, but no one will talk about it.
The reader knows what happens, but we don't know why, or how and I loved that being revealed slowly. I felt like uncovering the secrets of Lunar really helped Fern grow and start to flourish as a newly single woman, almost as if they were on parallel journeys.
This was a fantastic mystery book, and I'll definitely be looking out for more by this author.
This was a real mysterious page turner. Fern has recently separated from her husband, and buys the beautiful, but run down Lunar house. Chloe writes with such description that you can really clearly see everything. So often an author can take this too far, and the descriptions become boring, but not here, it was the perfect amount. As well as being in desperate need of modernisation, Lunar has secrets. Mainly the perfectly preserved bedroom of a young child. Everyone Fern meets seems to know what happened, or be connected in some way, but no one will talk about it.
The reader knows what happens, but we don't know why, or how and I loved that being revealed slowly. I felt like uncovering the secrets of Lunar really helped Fern grow and start to flourish as a newly single woman, almost as if they were on parallel journeys.
This was a fantastic mystery book, and I'll definitely be looking out for more by this author.