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A review by omamiology
The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell
4.0
This book started out gloomy and mysterious but didn’t get truly creepy until about halfway. Still, the slow buildup wasn’t too bad. Gothic tropes Galore; Pregnant widow in a crumbling estate, strange sounds and stranger people, multiple storylines, secrets revealed, madness, and don’t forget those life sized wooden figures with watchful eyes! Lived Elsie’s character... what a FIGHTER!
I wish there was more elaboration somehow on the way Rupert’s mother and her so called ramblings before she was committed. That would have have given us more insight as to what happened and why exactly she felt the garret could keep the companions at bay. Mrs. Holt lived there for years with nothing happening (unless she lied because we are dealing with some unreliable narrations here).
I wish some of the deaths were “shown” to Elsie as they happened so we could get an account of how strangely these people died. Because if they randomly became compelled to kill themselves by the evil in the house (which would make it terrifying to witness) I would have wanted someone to recount that horror. Finding them dead was alarming but nothing like seeing the act at least once.
SPOILERS/ THEORIES AHEAD
I think FREAKING Hetta “infected” Sarah when Sarah got that scratch from the companion that never healed!
I must confess, I definitely assumed Elsie’s father sexually assaulted her at some point but I didn’t think he was Jolyon’s father until later on.
I was suspecting Sarah early on because she just seemed too plain and simple to be realistic...
Merripen and his sister’s story hurt me. Poor little things got involved with people that drove them off the land and then got them brutally killed!
I wish there was more elaboration somehow on the way Rupert’s mother and her so called ramblings before she was committed. That would have have given us more insight as to what happened and why exactly she felt the garret could keep the companions at bay. Mrs. Holt lived there for years with nothing happening (unless she lied because we are dealing with some unreliable narrations here).
I wish some of the deaths were “shown” to Elsie as they happened so we could get an account of how strangely these people died. Because if they randomly became compelled to kill themselves by the evil in the house (which would make it terrifying to witness) I would have wanted someone to recount that horror. Finding them dead was alarming but nothing like seeing the act at least once.
SPOILERS/ THEORIES AHEAD
I think FREAKING Hetta “infected” Sarah when Sarah got that scratch from the companion that never healed!
I must confess, I definitely assumed Elsie’s father sexually assaulted her at some point but I didn’t think he was Jolyon’s father until later on.
I was suspecting Sarah early on because she just seemed too plain and simple to be realistic...
Merripen and his sister’s story hurt me. Poor little things got involved with people that drove them off the land and then got them brutally killed!