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I read very little horror. I don't really know why, because unlike from horror movies, I don't get weeks of nightmares, but it's just not a genre I have on my radar. And since my sample size is so small, I can't help but to compare Tidepool to All the Murmuring Bones, which I read earlier this year. Both center around the sea and [redacted], and it's just unfortunate that my only other experience with horror is apparently Dracula and its retelling A Dowry of Blood (I was not aware that Dracula counts as horror to be fair, so I'm inclined to just not count it). I try to rate this without being influenced too much, but it was bad timing.
Tidepool is a small village in, I believe, Maine, US. It's 1913, and some rich dudes want to turn Tidepool into a resort town. Tidepool does decidedly not want this.
After her brother disappears from the face of earth, Sorrow (ngl I love her name) makes her way to the last place he's been seen alive. Yep, it's Tidepool. And well, Tidepool isn't happy to see her. Even less so when she starts asking uncomfortable questions and starts poking the wrong sleeping bears.
I had fun though. I mean, it was grisly and dark and everything felt very wet (you'll get it), but it was pretty well written and once I actually started it, I breezed through Tidepool. I did not need the Epilogue at all, it would've worked better for me personally if that had been missing, but otherwise, a solid novel(la? it's prettys short). And because it's so short, I won't talk about how some characters were a bit flat, just because you can't give every major character 50 pages of background if your story is only 200 pages long. I did like Quentin a whole lot though. He was probably my favourite, and it was really cool to read about his interaction with all the other characters.
(Also, did you see that incredibly cool cover???? It's great. I love it. I am not above admitting that I requested this purely because of the cover. But it was also fun and short to read, so it was a win-win for me!)
@NetGalley and The Parliament House: Thank you guys for this ARC!
Tidepool is a small village in, I believe, Maine, US. It's 1913, and some rich dudes want to turn Tidepool into a resort town. Tidepool does decidedly not want this.
After her brother disappears from the face of earth, Sorrow (ngl I love her name) makes her way to the last place he's been seen alive. Yep, it's Tidepool. And well, Tidepool isn't happy to see her. Even less so when she starts asking uncomfortable questions and starts poking the wrong sleeping bears.
I had fun though. I mean, it was grisly and dark and everything felt very wet (you'll get it), but it was pretty well written and once I actually started it, I breezed through Tidepool. I did not need the Epilogue at all, it would've worked better for me personally if that had been missing, but otherwise, a solid novel(la? it's prettys short). And because it's so short, I won't talk about how some characters were a bit flat, just because you can't give every major character 50 pages of background if your story is only 200 pages long. I did like Quentin a whole lot though. He was probably my favourite, and it was really cool to read about his interaction with all the other characters.
(Also, did you see that incredibly cool cover???? It's great. I love it. I am not above admitting that I requested this purely because of the cover. But it was also fun and short to read, so it was a win-win for me!)
@NetGalley and The Parliament House: Thank you guys for this ARC!