Happy Monday Bookish people! I hope you are all well today.
Today I am bringing you my review of a recently published novel, Winterbourne by Elisabeth Wolf. I am not sure what genre this can fit into, I found it in the general fiction section but it has mystery elements, fantasy-ish elements. It’s a combination of genres.
Let me know your thoughts if you have read this book!
Blurb/Synopsis:
Within the walls of Winterbourne dwells a secret room, with an unspeakable collection of books.
Librarian Anne Adams has found the perfect a job cataloguing the library of Winterbourne, an architectural masterpiece on a remote island off the west coast of Scotland. Surrounded by an awe-inspiring landscape, the library is magnificent, with priceless first editions, a librarian’s dream.
However, Anne’s early weeks in her new job are beset by obstacles – no internet, a house plunged into darkness every night and unexplained mysteries on the island. After weeks of isolation, upon meeting the mysterious owner Lucien Broussard, Anne is puzzled. Eloquent and well-travelled, his reclusive nature seems uncharacteristic. But after finding a cryptic clue within the pages of a book, Anne discovers that Broussard’s collection includes everything from the mundane to the books no one should ever open . . .
Get swept up in Elisabeth Wolf’s chilling and unpredictable mystery.
My review:
I was very excited to start this book because it had all the elements I enjoy. A grand house setting, a librarian protagonist to root for and a dark mystery that had a slightly gothic feeling to it. Honestly though, I am still confused about how I feel about this book. It started off well, you begin with a bit of background into Annie and what happened to her to send her to a job at Winterbourne and as a reader you do start to feel for her, you want her to take the job, to get away from everything in her personal life. You think Winterbourne will be her easy, fresh start. Then all these suspicious things start happening and you have to piece the mystery together. I think the blurb is a little misleading in how it describes this story, I can’t say why because it would be a big spoiler but I felt misled by it. The blurb also has the main plot twist written in it so it fell a bit flat when it was finally revealed, and it was revealed much too late in the book also. overall, it is a book that I am glad that I read and I did like, I think? But, I don’t think it is a book I would read again.
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