Genre ~ paranormal
Featuring ~ slow burn, paranormal, ghosts, references to murder & suicide
Release date ~ October 4, 2022
POV ~ single ~ 1st person
Page count ~ 320
Audio length ~ 9 hours 20 minutes
My rating ~ 3⭐
My review:
Nora is a widow and takes a liking to Paul, a friend of her late husbands. Soon after they marry they head to Paul’s family home to take care of his elderly parents. Everything isn’t as it seems when the knives start to go missing.
Meh, this was just okay for me. I didn’t really care for any of the characters and didn’t feel enough of a connection to them. Many of the chapters were around 30 minutes long and some 40-50, which is quite lengthy in my opinion. I did like that the chapters were titled. I don’t read an abundance of paranormal books and I did like the weird uniqueness concept of the story, but overall not really for me.
Narrated by Eve Passeltiner for 9 hours and 20 minutes, easy to follow at 2x. I was mostly happy with the narration, but I think she could have had a little more emotion. I could’ve went for a gasp here and there.
*Thanks to Dreamscape Media, the author and NetGalley for the advance audiobook. I am voluntarily leaving my honest review*
⬇Purchase links⬇
Save on Book of Knives at Booksamillion.com.Book blurb:
There are thirteen knives. One by one they begin to disappear
Nora didn’t expect Hidden Lake Camp to be in a state of ruin. Dock full of rotten boards, smashed windows, cabins falling apart. To her new husband, Paul, the camp is the past he’d just as soon bury. Nora agreed to drive north with him to get his elderly parents settled while he makes enough repairs to sell the property. Only a few months, Paul said. The summer camp, however, and its deep lake have other plans.
After Nora’s first meal with his difficult family, one knife-part of a prized collection-goes missing. By the time the fourth and fifth vanish from behind locked doors and out from under watchful eyes, Nora can barely sleep. There’s talk of ghosts, secret rooms and someone at the summer camp found dead in the tall grass.
Unsettling, gripping, and totally original, Book of Knives is a literary thriller that shows how one person’s unraveling can bring the whole house down.
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