Bone Deep

By: Sandra Ireland

Narrated by: Toni Frutin, Kate Reading

A twisty and propulsive read, this dark psychological thriller of sibling rivalry, love, betrayal, and the dire consequences of family fallout brilliantly plays on our fears of loneliness and abandonment, harkening to the modern gothic bestsellers by Ruth Ware and Liz Nugent.

Is a story ever just a story?

Mac, a retired academic and writer, is working on a new collection of folktales, inspired by local legends, and at the insistence of her only child, Arthur, she hires a young assistant, Lucie, to live in a cottage on her property and help her transcribe them. What Arthur doesn’t know is that his mother is determined to keep the secrets of her past from ever being discovered. And what Mac doesn’t know is that Lucie has a few complicated secrets of her own.

The creaking presence of an ancient water mill next to Mac’s property that used to grind wheat into flour serves as an eerie counterpoint for these two women as they circle warily around each other, haunted by the local legend of two long-dead sisters, ready to point accusing fingers from the pages of history.

This atmospheric page turner evocatively gives voice to the question: What happens when you fall in love with the wrong person?

so so

Not a bad story overall. It probably would have been better without Kate Reading. Don't get me wrong, I like some of her other narrations. When she tries the accents it never works well. She kept going in and out of the accent and sometimes overselling it. Distracted me too much from the story

The main character is unlikable

Honestly, all of the characters are unlikable. The story is too romance focused than the several summaries I read portrayed.