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A review by rhodaj
The Dream House by Rachel Hore
3.0
Kate and Simon are bringing their young children up in London and are extremely stressed trying to keep all the balls in the air and make the decision to move to the Suffolk countryside with Simon’s mother and leave the bustling city life behind, while they find a house of their own.
Out on a walk one evening, Kate stumbles across a house that she realizes she has already had dreams about. She befriends Agnes, the elderly lady that lives in the house and discovers that they have more in common than she ever anticipated.
This book started off really well for me. I was invested in the move to the countryside and village life and enjoyed Agnes’ story of her life and the lovely old Seddington House. However it all started to unravel for me about halfway through.
Firstly, there were a number of very unlikely coincidences that just made it all very far-fetched. A few I could live with, but too many, and particularly the last one in the book was almost ridiculous to me.
Secondly, I was really put off and annoyed by the romance in this book which was both unnecessary and untimely in my opinion. I really hate when an author feels the need to insert a token romance (I’m the first to admit I’m not a romantic though
Out on a walk one evening, Kate stumbles across a house that she realizes she has already had dreams about. She befriends Agnes, the elderly lady that lives in the house and discovers that they have more in common than she ever anticipated.
This book started off really well for me. I was invested in the move to the countryside and village life and enjoyed Agnes’ story of her life and the lovely old Seddington House. However it all started to unravel for me about halfway through.
Firstly, there were a number of very unlikely coincidences that just made it all very far-fetched. A few I could live with, but too many, and particularly the last one in the book was almost ridiculous to me.
Secondly, I was really put off and annoyed by the romance in this book which was both unnecessary and untimely in my opinion. I really hate when an author feels the need to insert a token romance (I’m the first to admit I’m not a romantic though