I didn‘t enjoy this book as much as I hoped I would. The concept and topics of the story were intriguing:

We follow a couple on their trip to rekindle their marriage. Both of them seem to have hidden agendas from the beginning. What is especially interesting is that the husband Adam suffers from faceblindness and cannot recognise people even if he has seen them everyday for years. This fact makes him an unreliable narrator which can be great in a thriller (not sure if it really did anything for me in this particular story though). We also get to read letters from his wife that she wrote secretly every year on their anniversary. 

All of this sounded like the perfect set up but not unfortunately this book as a whole turned out to be just average to me. The beginning got me hooked - I especially liked reading about the phone situation. My issue was the middle part of the story: it felt like NOTHING happened. I was getting really bored and had to push myself to keep reading- and that‘s never a good sign. Maybe I disliked the middle so much because it relied a lot on the setting. The book tried to be creepy but I still never felt like the characters were in any actual danger. The stakes felt really low the entire time.

The ending picked up the pace again. I predicted the main twist of the story but there were more things I didn’t see coming and I actually found the conclusion to be satisfying. I still feel like there was too much set up. My favourite part were the letters and my least favourite part were the chapters from the couple at the house. 

Who would I recommend this book for?
You might like this book if the following things fit your current reading mood:
- atmospheric reads
- creepy house in the snowy highlands
- disfunctional marriage 
- multiple perspectives
- unreliable narrator
- slow build up to the final of the story with lots of clues on the way 
- red herrings
- little to no action
- flashback perspective in the form of letters