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A review by sabireads84
The Thin Place by C.D. Major
1.0
1,5⭐️ rounded down
The Thin Place
Another read with the fantastic Jayme, who felt up for something in spooky and so was I!
Thin Places are described as "those rare locales where the distance between heaven and Earth collapses", in Celtic beliefs.
The book was promising, at least in the beginning, until… let me put a trigger warning for you
⚠️death of animals⚠️. (I add child death as well, I guess) be careful with the epilogue!
You may officially call me a cold hearted *itch, I can read anything. But the death of an animal? Get me out.
Overtoun Estate - a real place - has a dark secret and it has been buried for a long time. The mysterious bridge were hundreds of dogs leapt into death. A mysterious White Lady.
Ava is a reporter based in Glasgow. Ava is finally pregnant and does not know much about her own families history, especially her mothers. She only remembers glimpses from her own childhood. Billy chance she stumbles over the mystery of Overtoun Estate and feels connected.
The atmosphere when she visits is weird, she feels something. Of course she takes her mothers dog with her into the job and the poor thing almost leaps into its demise. Luckily not.
Ava becomes obsessed with the place and it’s history.
We get three different storylines. Ava in the present, Constance in 1949, who is a sick child, and Marion in 1929 who is swooned away by a Scottish man who owns the Estate.
How are the three women connected?
I really enjoyed the story in the beginning, especially when I looked up the places, did wonders for the imagination. Gorgeous places. But, after the first dog incident I started to get annoyed with Ava. And it stuck a bit with me. She neglects her own family and health.
I felt the most connected with poor Marion.
Overall, I liked the storyline enough, it would have been better without Ava. I wonder sometimes what’s the sense in a main character that you just can’t stand?
The epilogue was gratuitous, so unnecessary. The book started very strong and then it tumbled down the hill…. Errr…. Bridge. I hated the main character, they killed dogs for nothing, the mystery kept us guessing but it fell flat for me. Urgh.
The thing that kept me going was Jayme, otherwise I would not have made it very far. ❤️
The Thin Place
Another read with the fantastic Jayme, who felt up for something in spooky and so was I!
Thin Places are described as "those rare locales where the distance between heaven and Earth collapses", in Celtic beliefs.
The book was promising, at least in the beginning, until… let me put a trigger warning for you
⚠️death of animals⚠️. (I add child death as well, I guess) be careful with the epilogue!
You may officially call me a cold hearted *itch, I can read anything. But the death of an animal? Get me out.
Overtoun Estate - a real place - has a dark secret and it has been buried for a long time. The mysterious bridge were hundreds of dogs leapt into death. A mysterious White Lady.
Ava is a reporter based in Glasgow. Ava is finally pregnant and does not know much about her own families history, especially her mothers. She only remembers glimpses from her own childhood. Billy chance she stumbles over the mystery of Overtoun Estate and feels connected.
The atmosphere when she visits is weird, she feels something. Of course she takes her mothers dog with her into the job and the poor thing almost leaps into its demise. Luckily not.
Ava becomes obsessed with the place and it’s history.
We get three different storylines. Ava in the present, Constance in 1949, who is a sick child, and Marion in 1929 who is swooned away by a Scottish man who owns the Estate.
How are the three women connected?
I really enjoyed the story in the beginning, especially when I looked up the places, did wonders for the imagination. Gorgeous places. But, after the first dog incident I started to get annoyed with Ava. And it stuck a bit with me. She neglects her own family and health.
I felt the most connected with poor Marion.
Overall, I liked the storyline enough, it would have been better without Ava. I wonder sometimes what’s the sense in a main character that you just can’t stand?
The epilogue was gratuitous, so unnecessary. The book started very strong and then it tumbled down the hill…. Errr…. Bridge. I hated the main character, they killed dogs for nothing, the mystery kept us guessing but it fell flat for me. Urgh.
The thing that kept me going was Jayme, otherwise I would not have made it very far. ❤️