Damn, Girl! 👏🏼👏🏼

I honestly didn’t expect to have enjoyed this book so much. I was literally carrying this book around, to the toilet, to a family gathering, even as I was accompanying me Mum to some sort like a Home Depot kind of thing, I was just going around with my nose stuck in the book. Sure, there were still the typical cliches that I’ve mentioned before; (1) the main character experiencing major loss in her life? ✔️; (2) after the loss, the main character decided to move away in order to start something new to help recover from the loss? ✔️; (3) there was something ominous link to the past between the main character and the new place? ✔️; (4) the link to the past had something to do with a family history? ✔️; (5) there’s another guy who seems to be annoying and quite mysterious in the beginning, only to end up as the main love interest of the main character? ✔️; (6) for some reasons, apparently the guy had a strong connection to the past also? ✔️.

Oh, wow! Will you look at that? A full six check lists of things showing the exact same thing that I found in The Silver Witch. But! Hold down your tongue! Although it shares a lot of basic premises, both stories differs in its genre; whilst The Silver Witch is more fantasy-like (what with some witch and/or shaman-like character in the story), The House Between Tides is more mystery-type as the characters set out to crack the mystery that lies in the house between tides.

So, then, what’s so good about this book? The back and forth story and the getting-to-know your characters in depthly are the two things that made this book stand out. It’s not always about Hetty, even though you think she was your main character, but it is everyone in the area of the house and the people before them who inhabits the island. You grew to sympathise with the characters, and that what makes me so hung up on the story.