Crow Court

This book was excellent. Some of the writing style may not be for everyone, but I personally loved it as it only added to the story!

I especially loved the use of the Dorset dialect, which surprisingly wasn't difficult to understand. There was a glossary at the start but I actually didn't refer to it all that much, because it was easy to get the gist of a sentence.

I also have to thank Andy for the additional notes added at the end of each chapter, which really added to whole reading experience.

The book was made up of short stories, which the author did brilliantly to bring together by the end of the book.

Thank you to Pigeonhole and Andy Charman for the chance to read this book.

So, I don't particularly appreciate reading a summary of a book right before I start it. I like to go in with some vague knowledge – genre, period, etc. – but I don't want to know much about the plot.

That backfired with Crow Court. I was so flipping confused as each chapter seemed to have nothing to do with the previous, aside from a brief mention of a character that appeared earlier. Or I'd think I knew who the chapter was about, but I couldn't remember any character names. It's more of a collection of short stories with a deep, deep underlying connection that I do not understand. I know some of them were originally published as short stories. Still, the book seems like it's caught in a strange in-between novel and story collection that I didn't necessarily dislike, but I wouldn't go searching out.

I did enjoy the stories, but since it claimed it was a novel, I kept waiting for everything to come together. It didn't.

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for providing this ARC in exchange for an honest review.