The Animals at Lockwood Manor

Pff, teleurstellend. Dit boek wilde heel graag een gothic-roman zijn en gebruikte ook alle denkbare cliché tropen van één, maar het was over het algemeen gewoon saai. Er gebeurde eigenlijk niks en geen enkel personage had een onderscheidende stem.

This was an interesting gothic style novel about a woman who accompanies part of a museum collection to be protected in a manor house during the second world war. This novel is extremely slow and very little actually happens, but the atmosphere was great and the twist regarding the actual nature of what was going on in the house surprised me.

This is less spooky than I expected and by the end scarier than most ghost stories. It reminds us that people are the scariest thing of all.

*2.5 stars for a wonderful premise. This just failed to connect with me on multiple levels - emotionally, thematically - and it is disappointing because the setup had such promise.