- Paperback: 336 pages
- Publisher: Trapeze (19 Sept. 2019)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1409178927
- ISBN-13: 978-1409178927
Synopsis
You trust your family. They love you. Don’t they?
When 17-year-old Eva Olsen awakes after a horrific accident that has left her bedbound, her parents are right by her side. Devoted, they watch over her night and day in the attic room of their family home in the forests of Norway.
But the accident has left Eva without her most recent memories, and not everything is as it seems. As secrets from the night of the accident begin to surface, Eva realises – she has to escape her parents’ house and discover the truth. But what if someone doesn’t want her to find it?
Review
Lake Child is a dark and unnerving thriller set in Norway. Eva has been in an horrific accident that she has no recollection of. Severely injured she finds herself confined to the attic at home, locked in for her own safety. But Eva begins to question why she is locked in, why no one comes to visit and why are her parents being so evasive. Eva is desperate to escape her prison in the attic and find the answers to just what happened that night.
Lake Child is a brilliantly written and thought out thriller. Eva’s confinement to the attic, the house by a lake surrounded by trees and the cold and dark of the Norwegian landscape give this book a very claustrophobic feel. Eva develops a kind of cabin fever being contained in the house, and she goes to great lengths to get out. She is intent on punishing her parents for her forced captivity, and for stopping her friends from seeing her and from keeping secrets and will go to any lengths needed. There is a sense of paranoia and fear, a darkness that is engulfing her. There are so many questions in the first half of this book that they build up adding tension and suspense for the reader and for Eva as a character.
I loved the writing style and characterisation of this book, it had dark and light, fear and hope, and the obvious good and bad characters. This book has two very distinctive parts where the plot completely goes on a different trajectory that I really hadn’t expected. I have to be honest and say that at first I was not sure about this plot turn, but as I read on I was completely gripped and pulled into Eva’s story with all its twist and turns.
Lake Child is a dark, chilling and suspenseful read. Eva is a strong central character who isn’t afraid to ask difficult questions and deal with the shocking answers. Family is very much at the centre of this book; the importance of family, how far you would go to protect your children and the secrets you keep in a family. Thrilling and intense I honestly couldn’t put this book down so read it in a day.
Thank you to Trapeze and Tracy Fenton for inviting to me to be part of the blog tour for Lake Child.
