Winterwood

Its a wee bit tiresome when the whole book is narrated like an Irish, yes a native Irish man gone bit batty, well not a bit batty, he's feelin' quite better actually, goin' to work and such, but aye there's Ole Pappy again, and he's a-sittin' with his daughter in the winterwood, his precious wee one......more

What the heckin jeezuz did I just read??? Wow. This book is so deeply disturbing and confusing and dark and creepy and ... dear lord, what a mess. The prose is disjointed and the narrator is completely unreliable, which means you have to put most of the story together yourself. I enjoyed that aspec......more

I read the first third of this book, then skimmed, then read the ending. Perhaps I’m just not the right person for this type of story. It’s confusing, jumbled and has an unreliable narrator. The story is also very grim, and not quite what I was expecting. I thought this would have a folklorish and s......more

Winner of the 2007 Irish Book Award of the Year, Winterwood is the chilling story of Redmond Hatch, a man who appears to have defied his troubled childhood by making a happy life for himself with his beautiful wife and the daughter he adores. The novel opens with Hatch, a journalist, interviewing Ne......more

Really well-written and haunting, if you don't mind reading the ramblings of an Irish mountain man. Everything in this book starts out innocent and devolves into something horrifying. It was like a frightening but sad train wreck. I would have rated this higher if I found out exactly what happened,......more