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A review by bubblewombat
Whiteland by Rosie Cranie-Higgs
4.0
*Thank you to the publishers and NetGalley for providing me with an e-ARC in exchange for an honest review*
I fell in love with this book, slowly and then all at once.
The setting, the writing style (so flowy, hell, even the chapter names rhyme), the characters, the mythology...
Kira is on holiday with her family and all is well...except it isn't. Her sister Romy goes missing (twice), so naturally, Kira teams up with the adorably funny Callum to find her. That doesn't go as planned. Where it does go, however, is definitely not what I expected.
The spookiness is perfect till around 30 something %, after that it gets a bit slow but picks right back up near half of the book and oh boy, it delivers. It delivers strong. At that point I honestly couldn't put it down. It was sooooo good.
The people and the creatures Kira and Callum meet on the way are proper fairytale material and I'm definitely going to look some of those things up.
And the ending, LET'S TALK ABOUT THAT SHALL WE? What a cruel way to leave the reader hanging, I love it. I was about ready to throw my phone away when I got to the acknowledgements and saw it was part of a trilogy. PHEW, PHONE SAVED. I'll eagerly be awaiting the continuation of this magical story.
So why four stars and not five?
The previously mentioned slowness and some scenes could've done with a little less description. Almost perfect but not quite.
I fell in love with this book, slowly and then all at once.
The setting, the writing style (so flowy, hell, even the chapter names rhyme), the characters, the mythology...
Kira is on holiday with her family and all is well...except it isn't. Her sister Romy goes missing (twice), so naturally, Kira teams up with the adorably funny Callum to find her. That doesn't go as planned. Where it does go, however, is definitely not what I expected.
The spookiness is perfect till around 30 something %, after that it gets a bit slow but picks right back up near half of the book and oh boy, it delivers. It delivers strong. At that point I honestly couldn't put it down. It was sooooo good.
The people and the creatures Kira and Callum meet on the way are proper fairytale material and I'm definitely going to look some of those things up.
And the ending, LET'S TALK ABOUT THAT SHALL WE? What a cruel way to leave the reader hanging, I love it. I was about ready to throw my phone away when I got to the acknowledgements and saw it was part of a trilogy. PHEW, PHONE SAVED. I'll eagerly be awaiting the continuation of this magical story.
So why four stars and not five?
The previously mentioned slowness and some scenes could've done with a little less description. Almost perfect but not quite.