A review by ginger_curmudgeon
Winterset Hollow by Jonathan Edward Durham

adventurous dark tense

• Loveable characters? It's complicated

3.75

I don’t quite know how I feel about this book. I had a hard time getting into it and it was a very slow go for me. It’s not that it’s a bad story, but I just didn’t get as invested as I hoped. I don’t know what kept me from enjoying it as much as I expected. Maybe it just wasn’t the right time for me to read it? 

I do enjoy Durham’s writing style. It’s a bit more literary than I expected. 

I cared about Caroline and Mark, but Eamon was the only character I really felt invested in. That said, the revelation about him was not a surprise for me. There were signs. 

For a while I sort of cared about Runny and Flackwell, but that didn’t last. 

One of the things I enjoyed the most is how Durham created the lore about the book, the author, the island . . . all of it.