Roan is my favourite character by far. She is wild, captivating, truly hopes to fight her own darkness. She knows little of her past, but she is curious, she wants to understand herself, why she has been brought to the mountain, given to a man she has never met. Her relationship with the others on the mountain is tumultuous, but she is caring, loving, even when her nature tells her not to be. Hermione's narrative may have been the shortest, but the most enlightening, sad and twisted. She was the most naive, trusting and blind of the three women. Once she realizes the truth of her situation she is bitter, resentful and resourceful. The men in this novel all seem to be useless, easily controlled. They have nothing to offer in terms of help, or pushing the narrative forward. It is only Rapley who shows any kind of care for these young women, in his own strange, angry way. The other men are all dangerous, hurt Zoey, Roan, and Hermione. They are abusive, angry at women, pushy, presumptive about the nature of a women. Every single man in the narrative underestimates the power of these women. The found footage/documents style of storytelling worked really well for the horror elements of this novel. It helped to break the three women's story, but also peppered the story with creativity, and added to the slow building suspense and fear. I really loved the Conjures (witchcraft) element, it was inventive and different. It was not quite as scary as I was expecting, but it was just certain elements of the story that I do not personally connect with as frightening. The novel was ominous, atmospheric, anger inducing (how these three women are treated), and was very well written.
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