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A review by kirkw1972
The Cuckoo Wood by M. Sean Coleman
5.0
This book has such a haunting feel about it. I had to travel to London the other day for work; two and a half hours each way by train and I managed to read the whole book by the time I got home again. I could quite happily have skipped the work bits in between to have kept reading.
There's so much that happens in the story it's quite a surprise to realise it all takes place over the course of just a few days. Ripley arrives in the village of Kirkdale to try and unravel the mystery of 2 teenage suicides and ends up also investigating 6 teenage suicides from many years ago as well after spotting links between the two. It's beautifully atmospheric and there's a certain bleakness about the woods that back onto the village.
I really enjoyed the character of Ripley and her desire to debunk angelic sightings in a very old fashioned religious village. The secondary characters are equally memorable and all of them just so well drawn. It keeps you guess until the end as to who did what and why. It's just a really well written book and I enjoyed it immensely. I have the follow up 'A Hollow Sky' to read next and I can't wait.
There's so much that happens in the story it's quite a surprise to realise it all takes place over the course of just a few days. Ripley arrives in the village of Kirkdale to try and unravel the mystery of 2 teenage suicides and ends up also investigating 6 teenage suicides from many years ago as well after spotting links between the two. It's beautifully atmospheric and there's a certain bleakness about the woods that back onto the village.
I really enjoyed the character of Ripley and her desire to debunk angelic sightings in a very old fashioned religious village. The secondary characters are equally memorable and all of them just so well drawn. It keeps you guess until the end as to who did what and why. It's just a really well written book and I enjoyed it immensely. I have the follow up 'A Hollow Sky' to read next and I can't wait.