🎧 Book Review: Elsewhere by Sarah Tierney

3⭐
Genre ~ psychological fiction
Setting ~ Scotland
Publication date ~ June 25, 2024
Est Page Count ~ 276 (before+ 13 chapters +after)
Audio length ~ 8 hours 37 minutes
Narrators ~ Lorna Bennett & Kat Rose-Martin
POV ~ dual 1st
Featuring ~ remote cabin with no cell service, old secrets, slow burn, long chapters

My review:

Estranged, total opposite, sisters, Catherine & Anna, are off to Scotland to try to reconnect. It’s not proving to be too easy when weird things begin happening at the cabin. Add in no cell service and the creep factor for them is intensified.

This was a super slow mover and the secrets and twists weren’t exactly mind blowing. Some chapters were very long, like over 40 minutes and one was even over an hour, which is way too long in my opinion. I did enjoy the creepy vibe of the location and the very end. All in all, fine, but I can see other’s enjoying it more than me, especially if they read and not listen.

Narration notes:
I’m not sure which narrator was for who, but I felt like Catherine’s was yelling at me the whole time. She seemed very grumpy with her gruff tone, which I guess maybe was fitting since she didn’t really want to go on the trip in the first place. She took me out of the story a bit. The other did a perfectly fine job.

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Book blurb:

A psychologically gripping novel of estranged sisters, deep secrets, and tense twists from “an elegant and thrilling new voice” (Emma Jane Unsworth, author of Animals).

At the height of summer, two sisters reunite at a remote cottage. They’ve long been distant from each other, literally as well as emotionally: Anna is a free-spirited wanderer and Catherine is career-focused and settled in one place. So, some tension is not surprising, but it rapidly escalates when odd things start happening during the all-night twilight on the wild peninsula.

Who’s the watchful girl with a baby and what does she want from the sisters? Who bangs on their windows in the early hours then disappears into the woods? What does the sad-eyed Scottish man Anna is falling for know about it all? And how does it link back to an event twenty years ago that the sisters never talk about—the incident that created all this confusion, dislocation, and longing in the first place?

This suspenseful, knowing novel explores how psychosis creeps in on the back of isolation and suspicion; the shadow that motherhood casts over women’s lives, even when there is no child; and how buried trauma always winds its way up to the surface—sometimes in the strangest and most frightening ways.

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