Soon

Lois Murphy
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Soon

Nelliedae
1/21/2019
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This was a slow boiling horror, simmering away for much of a fairly uneventful plot, just building the unease until things started to go seriously awry towards the close. It took me a while to adjust to the pacing; I enjoyed the author’s skilful depiction of her likeable small-town characters and their quietly doom-laden lives, but spent a while waiting for something more to happen. I liked the lack of explanation given for the weird goings on in town. Possibly because they’re both Australian tales, but the vanishing strangers in cars reminded me a little of the missing schoolgirls in Picnic at Hanging Rock... both disappearing at odd angles, with no neat conclusions. So it was slow, but good. Lots of great sensory detail without going overboard on the atmospherics. I think the ending’s going to sit with me a while.