Looking Glass Sound: from the bestselling and award winning author of The Last House on Needless Street

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I guess I can't love everything all the time from a certain author, but I cannot deny my disappointment here. To Ward’s credit, though, this is an ambitious and highly creative plot, and once again, she blew my mind with that ending! Her characters, the way she weaves together all the storylines, the reveals - all of them brilliantly done, and all while my heart was banging out of my chest.

Looking Glass Sound by Catriona Ward Unpacking creepy thriller Looking Glass Sound by Catriona Ward

Wilder was always a bit afraid of Harper and her experiments with witchcraft, but when the three friends discovered a body, everything began to change. But know it’s a nesting doll of a novel, so multi-layered that it’s difficult to make sense of the ins and outs of the story. A deeply dark and unexpected tale about families, love, hate, the long shadow of the past, and the redemptive power of storytelling. In Ward’s worlds, words have a particular brand of power, and in Looking Glass Sound they are used to both recount the past and forge the future, a simultaneously liberating force (the truth can set you free, after all) and a prison from which you can never escape. Some books have unreliable narrators This one has an unreliable ensemble, existing in unreliable worlds.A pretty common element in many novels, it’s on steroids in this one, cruising along in the meta lane.

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Enter the overly friendly Sky Montague, a Proust-obsessed aspiring author who insists on becoming roommates with Wilder. Looking Glass Sound begins as a nostalgic coming-of-age tale about a trio of teenage misfits in Whistler Bay, Maine, a small coastal seaside town. The Breakfast Club meets The Secret History in mystery author RJ Jacobs’ new dark academia thriller. Told over several different time periods, we meet Wilder Harlow, an author writing his last ever book.I’m looking at myself in the bathroom mirror and thinking about love, because I plan on falling in love this summer.

Looking Glass Sound by Catriona Ward REVIEW: Looking Glass Sound by Catriona Ward

As with Last House, Ward sprinkles horrors both big and tiny all across the page, whether it’s the pictures an intruder takes, or the description of bodies being pulled from the water, and it all coalesces around an unnerving narrative. You may be confused at times like I was, you might not know whats going on for large parts but you will enjoy reading every page like I did.According to Harper, a supernatural force is at work – a monster whose lair might be in a tidal cave across the beautiful cove. You really have to pay attention to every detail, because things change on a dime continually keeping you so off-kilter that you don’t know which end is up! It’s about writing and witchcraft, unrequited love, the death of the author, and not being able to move on from things that happened, or things you felt, when you were very young.