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A review by emilyyjjean
The Poison Tree by Erin Kelly
4.0
This book was okay...
I say this because it only got me totally hooked until about 3/4 of the way through. The beginning was okay, but riddled with details that I thought were sometimes unnecessary. The questions were always there of who was killed and who had done the killing, so the book had me hooked and I knew I had to finish it; it just took me way longer to read it than what I originally thought.
Another aspect of the book that made it harder to read was the fact that it switched between present and past so much and sometimes without warning. At first I thought I had got the system down (past one chapter, present the next), but I was clearly wrong about that because the book switched between past and present in the same chapter and between paragraphs without any indication or break. Sometimes I would start reading with the mindset of it being in one time period and then some clue later on would allow me to realize that I had been thinking the wrong time frame, so it would force me to kind of skim back through what I had read to properly read it.
This story though...I was not able to predict everything in the ending, and that's why I gave the book 4 stars instead of 3. There were two twists that I kind of predicted in my notes, but I wasn't 100% certain when I wrote them down. The rest it totally blew my mind. That ending and last chapter!
If you don't mind trudging through the first part, but want to be completely surprised at the ending I would definitely recommend this book.
I say this because it only got me totally hooked until about 3/4 of the way through. The beginning was okay, but riddled with details that I thought were sometimes unnecessary. The questions were always there of who was killed and who had done the killing, so the book had me hooked and I knew I had to finish it; it just took me way longer to read it than what I originally thought.
Another aspect of the book that made it harder to read was the fact that it switched between present and past so much and sometimes without warning. At first I thought I had got the system down (past one chapter, present the next), but I was clearly wrong about that because the book switched between past and present in the same chapter and between paragraphs without any indication or break. Sometimes I would start reading with the mindset of it being in one time period and then some clue later on would allow me to realize that I had been thinking the wrong time frame, so it would force me to kind of skim back through what I had read to properly read it.
This story though...I was not able to predict everything in the ending, and that's why I gave the book 4 stars instead of 3. There were two twists that I kind of predicted in my notes, but I wasn't 100% certain when I wrote them down. The rest it totally blew my mind. That ending and last chapter!
If you don't mind trudging through the first part, but want to be completely surprised at the ending I would definitely recommend this book.