This is my first time reading this author, so I didn’t know what to expect. But everything about the blurb just drew me in…and I wasn’t disappointed. 

I felt that this is a mystery story, first and foremost, with elements of horror and romance. The prose is beautiful. The story is told in dual timelines, the past and present with Gemma in the past and Christopher in the present, in third person. It’s a gorgeous story of finding your place in the world, and a tale of obsession and how it can take over one’s life. Characters are well written and fleshed out. 

And that ending wasn’t what I expected, but I was SO happy that our characters found what they were looking for. 

4 stars because the beginning is very slow and almost caused me to put the book down, but it really picks up around the 30% mark, and then I couldn’t put it down. 

I would read this author again!