Cunning Folk

This book came highly recommended and I can see why, it explores interesting themes and a truly nightmarish scenario. I enjoyed the last part of the book but I really struggled to make it through the first 250 + pages where it was slowly building up the situation, the build up didn't work for me because it was just an accumulation with no real surprises. Knowing the book is a novelized version of a potential movie (according the the author's notes at the end of the book) I can see the slow descriptive build up working in a film but in a book, at least for me, it really fell flat.

Classic Adam Nevill. Domestic horror, a family dreaming of a better life, buy a house they can hardly afford that needs so much work doing to it. Join this family as their life slowly unravels, add VERY strange neighbours, a magical wood at the bottom of the garden, and WTF did the dog just dig up the garden? I don't think the transition into insane nipple sucking, rabbit stroking folk horror is a smooth as some of his other books but what the hell !!!!!

As with all books by Mr Nevill, after reading, you will need cleansing.

A chilling and disturbing tale from a master of horror. This book will make you wonder just what your neighbours are really like.