A review by robinreading
The Day Before Winter by Elisabeth Ogilvie

1.0

The Day Before Winter is pretty disappointing. Like An Answer in the Tide, the pacing is a little off and the heart of the story feels adjacent to Joanna’s point of view. Gone are the days of “gunmetal seas” and “gorminess,” this is a lot of sentences about the family pets and flash backs. Ogilvie fails to control the tension as masterfully as she usually does, and it’s a tough read as a result. It feels like “Go Set A Watchman” to me—the book that might have been better left unpublished.