True crime writer Wylie Lark has been staying at a remote farmhouse for the past couple of months. It’s isolated, quiet, and just what she needs to finish writing her latest novel. It’s also where, years earlier, two people were brutally murdered and a young girl went missing. On a dark and snowy night, Wylie finds a small child lying in the snow. She brings them inside to warm up, but someone else is looking for the child and won’t stop until they find them.
This book was fine. I didn’t love it but I didn’t hate it. It was a quick and entertaining read. It kept my attention but I was never on the edge of my seat, dying to know what happens.
I thought the farmhouse and snowy landscape would have played a bigger part in the story but basically, it’s just really cold outside so they have to wear a lot of clothes and huddle beneath a lot of blankets to stay warm. The only thing the snowstorm does is cut off the phone lines so Wylie can’t call for help. I also had questions about the farmhouse – it’s almost implied that the house has been deserted since the murders that took place there 20 years ago but somehow Wylie can rent it. One of the rooms still has the stickers on the baseboard from the young girl who used to live there and this hasn’t changed in 20 years?
The book is told in three different timelines that eventually weave together at the end. I will say, the ending was a surprise and I did go back and reread some of the earlier chapters to see if there were hints. I still have a lot of questions and some things didn’t add up.
This book also uses a plot device that I don’t love where the main character is a writer who is writing a book, and when you get to the end you realize you’ve been reading the “book” they’ve been writing the whole time. It really bugs me when the last scene is the writer at a bookstore and they start reading the first page of their book and it’s the first page of the book you’re reading.
A little disappointed in this book, but that’s just my opinion.
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