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A review by abbieuprooted
The Thin Place by C.D. Major
4.0
Thankyou NetGalley for the ARC copy in exchange for an honest review. This book gave me goosebumps, I didn’t want to read it at night but I was too invested to put it down, I was thrilled to discover that it was based on a real life historical Scottish mystery!
A news reporter in the present day visits a dilapidated, huge Manor House to investigate a story about an old Victorian bridge called Overtoun Bridge northwest of Glasgow - rumoured to be a ‘thin place’, it is a Celtic belief that the veil between this world and the other is thinnest in these places. This is a real place, and there have indeed been reports of hundreds of Dogs since the 1950’s leaping off the bridge to their death on the rocks below, some have been recorded to survive the fall only to limp back up and do it again - nobody knows why!? A man in the 1990s threw a baby to his death on the same bridge, before attempting to throw himself over too. There have been bodies discovered around the estate, miles from where they are supposed to be. There is also rumoured to be the ghost of ‘The White Lady’ haunting the estate grounds, which has also been worked into this story. The author informs at the end that you can walk around the estate today, and have a pot of tea in the tearoom - I would love to visit!
Ava arrives at the scene to film and the foreboding house looming over them calls to her, and she is subsequently drawn into unearthing the history of the house and its inhabitants. She soon becomes obsessed with uncovering it’s dark history as she has some creepy experiences and feelings while filming on site! We discover this history alongside her, as we spend time with a character in the 20’s and a character in the 40s. This book has some desperately sad, disturbed characters, there’s a tragic storyline underpinning an ominous atmosphere that really keeps you guessing as the tension builds until you’re reading so fast to just get to the bottom of the mystery!! With family dramas, relationship problems, well fleshed out characters, and some supernatural eeriness thrown in. This was a great read!
Trigger warnings are spoilers so DM me for them.
A news reporter in the present day visits a dilapidated, huge Manor House to investigate a story about an old Victorian bridge called Overtoun Bridge northwest of Glasgow - rumoured to be a ‘thin place’, it is a Celtic belief that the veil between this world and the other is thinnest in these places. This is a real place, and there have indeed been reports of hundreds of Dogs since the 1950’s leaping off the bridge to their death on the rocks below, some have been recorded to survive the fall only to limp back up and do it again - nobody knows why!? A man in the 1990s threw a baby to his death on the same bridge, before attempting to throw himself over too. There have been bodies discovered around the estate, miles from where they are supposed to be. There is also rumoured to be the ghost of ‘The White Lady’ haunting the estate grounds, which has also been worked into this story. The author informs at the end that you can walk around the estate today, and have a pot of tea in the tearoom - I would love to visit!
Ava arrives at the scene to film and the foreboding house looming over them calls to her, and she is subsequently drawn into unearthing the history of the house and its inhabitants. She soon becomes obsessed with uncovering it’s dark history as she has some creepy experiences and feelings while filming on site! We discover this history alongside her, as we spend time with a character in the 20’s and a character in the 40s. This book has some desperately sad, disturbed characters, there’s a tragic storyline underpinning an ominous atmosphere that really keeps you guessing as the tension builds until you’re reading so fast to just get to the bottom of the mystery!! With family dramas, relationship problems, well fleshed out characters, and some supernatural eeriness thrown in. This was a great read!
Trigger warnings are spoilers so DM me for them.