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A review by hollxx
The Woman in Our House by Andrew Hart
1.0
Firstly, thank you to NetGalley for sending me a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
For me, this book was not that great. There were so much more in the book that I didn't like/enjoy compared to what I did like. I really wanted to enjoy this book as the synopsis sounded so good, but it just wasn't for me.
Firstly, it was quite confusing understanding which chapter was for which characters perspective. Only some chapters were labelled with the character (Anna's perspectives) but the chapters from the other characters perspectives were not labelled so it was quite confusing.
Also I feel like it took quite a long time to get up and running, it just seemed to be such a slow start up and it wasn't until around 80% of the way through where I started to actually want to read more.
There wasn't really much to the book - the synopsis says that the children start to come down with the most puzzling illnesses and injuries, but for the most part of the book this was only one illness in the youngest child - of 'feverish symptoms' and then there were only 2 injuries and these were mainly in the last half of the book so I feel like the synopsis sounds much more intriguing and thriller like than the actual novel was.
Characters seemed to be just forgotten and left behind too - for example Anna's husband Josh was rarely even mentioned in the last 20% of the book and I feel like it would have been more intriguing if he was also involved in the ending.
The only thing I did like about this book was that there were a few chapters towards the end that were genuinely creepy and made me really on edge reading it!
For me, this book was not that great. There were so much more in the book that I didn't like/enjoy compared to what I did like. I really wanted to enjoy this book as the synopsis sounded so good, but it just wasn't for me.
Firstly, it was quite confusing understanding which chapter was for which characters perspective. Only some chapters were labelled with the character (Anna's perspectives) but the chapters from the other characters perspectives were not labelled so it was quite confusing.
Also I feel like it took quite a long time to get up and running, it just seemed to be such a slow start up and it wasn't until around 80% of the way through where I started to actually want to read more.
There wasn't really much to the book - the synopsis says that the children start to come down with the most puzzling illnesses and injuries, but for the most part of the book this was only one illness in the youngest child - of 'feverish symptoms' and then there were only 2 injuries and these were mainly in the last half of the book so I feel like the synopsis sounds much more intriguing and thriller like than the actual novel was.
Characters seemed to be just forgotten and left behind too - for example Anna's husband Josh was rarely even mentioned in the last 20% of the book and I feel like it would have been more intriguing if he was also involved in the ending.
The only thing I did like about this book was that there were a few chapters towards the end that were genuinely creepy and made me really on edge reading it!