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A review by jasmeaniethebookish
Smithy by Amanda Desiree
4.0
Believe me when I tell you that this book was so much more than I expected (in all the best ways)! We begin with our highly respected researcher, Dr. Piers Preis-Harold as he recruits students with varying skill sets to observe and teach sign language to a chimpanzee named Webster/Smithy. This group will live together in an old, rundown mansion as to provide a more family-like setting to hopefully allow Webster proper stability. What follows is one of the best slow burning stories I’ve read in a long while.
We all know old mansions have history. We also have been told that animals are often aware of things well before humans, be it storms or spirits. We will follow our group via journals, diary entries, and video logs as they deal with increasingly scary situations. I really enjoyed this format and thought it was a perfect way to tell this story. There are a few characters that I absolutely loathed, but the author was great about showing different facets of why they might behave a certain way. I would 100% recommend this book.
Thank you to Inkshares, Amanda Desiree, and NetGalley for an eARC of this book in return for an honest review!
We all know old mansions have history. We also have been told that animals are often aware of things well before humans, be it storms or spirits. We will follow our group via journals, diary entries, and video logs as they deal with increasingly scary situations. I really enjoyed this format and thought it was a perfect way to tell this story. There are a few characters that I absolutely loathed, but the author was great about showing different facets of why they might behave a certain way. I would 100% recommend this book.
Thank you to Inkshares, Amanda Desiree, and NetGalley for an eARC of this book in return for an honest review!