A review by mlynes
The Half Burnt House by Alex North

3.0

An ambitious book both in structure and theme but it fails on character and plot. It reads like a first draft and needs a good structural edit to tease the essence of the story out. There are too many characters and too many poorly signaled timeframes. There’s an ingenious story lurking here which is the reason I kept turning the pages, but I sort of regret that.