REVIEW: A Gingerbread House by Catriona McPherson

A Gingerbread House by Catriona McPherson

Genre: Crime thriller

Read: 28th July 2021

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Severn House

Published: 3rd August 2021

★ 1 star

DESCRIPTION:

An invitation you can’t refuse. You should . . .

When shy, lonely Ivy meets a woman who claims to be her long-lost sister, she knows it’s too good to be true. She decides to trust Kate anyway. She wants a family. She wants someone to love.

She’s making a mistake.

Ivy enters Kate’s fairytale cottage, deep in the heart of Scotland...and she doesn’t come out.

She’s the first to go missing.

She won’t be the last.

Meanwhile, in another part of the forest, Tash’s journey is just beginning...

MY REVIEW:

I'm going to be in the minority here and say I was disappointed in A GINGERBREAD HOUSE. The premise offered something so much more exciting and I had my appetite whet for edge of your seat thrills...but nothing got my adrenaline pumping here. I found myself trapped within what appeared to be the underbelly of a crime family and then something strange happening with a 54 year old woman claiming to be the doppelganger of her twin sister! It was just...weird. And not in a good way.

Tash got on my nerves and I found her to be off-putting and strange. No, I found everyone to be off-putting and strange. And the entire book was just just a discombobulated convoluted mess that was I was thoroughly confused as to what was actually happening. I love a good Scottish thriller...but not this.

It is a slow thriller...so slow it is stagnant. I tried skimming ahead to where others say it picked up but for me is just never did. The story stayed confusing. Everyone just got stranger. And I just wasn't enjoying myself.

Life is too short to read books that you don't enjoy...so I moved on. NEXT!!

I would like to thank #CatrionaMcPherson, #Netgalley, #RachelsRandomResources and #SevernHouse for an ARC of #AGingerbreadHouse in exchange for an honest review.

MEET THE AUTHOR:

Catriona McPherson was born in South Queensferry. After finishing school, she worked in a bank for a short time, before going to university. She studied for an MA in English Language and Linguistics at Edinburgh University, and then gained a job in the local studies department at Edinburgh City Libraries. She left this post after a couple of years, and went back to university to study for a PhD in semantics. During her final year she applied for an academic job, but left to begin a writing career.

Catriona lived with her husband on a farm in the Galloway countryside before moving to California in 2010, where she spends her time writing, gardening, swimming and running.

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