When I wasn’t questioning our narrator’s sanity? I tried to solve the case with our characters. Well played, Purcell.īut seriously! I spent the entire book enthralled. Actually, I’m sure Purcell did that on purpose. It didn’t help that the book opened the way it did. Is our dear narrator telling the truth? Or is it her imagination? What is going on here? I couldn’t help but ask these questions throughout The Silent Companions. Purcell hooked me and wouldn’t let me go until I discovered all of The Silent Companions‘ secrets.īut it wasn’t just the events or the mysteries that made things interesting. Had it not been for the fact that I only allowed myself 30 minutes of reading time a day? I would have finished this book in one sitting. It’s been a few days now, and I still can’t get over what happened with this book. Truthfully? I put the book down a few times because the atmosphere Purcell set was just so heavy. I felt like I was in a fog-filled with impending doom. Do you know how good that felt?īecause it felt so good to want to hide. My heart? I thought it was going to jump out of my chest.
It made the hairs on the back of my neck and on my arms stands up. The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell gave me the chills. The book unsettled me - in the right way, of course. The book unsettled me - in the right way, of course.StoryGraph | Goodreads | BookShopOrg | IndieBound | Amazon | B&N | Book Depository | Waterstones The residents of The Bridge are terrified of the figure, but Elsie tries to shrug this off as simple superstition–that is, until she notices the figure’s eyes following her.Ī Victorian ghost story that evokes a most unsettling kind of fear, this is a tale that creeps its way through the consciousness in ways you least expect–much like the silent companions themselves. Inside her new home lies a locked door, beyond which is a painted wooden figure -a silent companion -that bears a striking resemblance to Elsie herself. But with her husband dead just weeks after their marriage, her new servants resentful, and the local villagers actively hostile, Elsie has only her husband’s awkward cousin for company. When Elsie married handsome young heir Rupert Bainbridge, she believed she was destined for a life of luxury. Synopsis: When newly widowed Elsie is sent to see out her pregnancy at her late husband’s crumbling country estate, The Bridge, what greets her is far from the life of wealth and privilege she was expecting. TW/CW: Violence, animal death, child death, miscarriage, self-harm, mental illness, medical trauma
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