Itsy Bitsy Spider (Emma Frost #1) by Willow Rose
Book 29 of 2014
Itsy Bitsy Spider by Willow Rose
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
In 1977, a young Danish woman named Astrid finds herself locked in a bunker. At first she thinks that she'll quickly be rescued, but as the hours and days pass, she begins to realize with horror that she could very well die locked away and forgotten.
In 2012, Emma Frost and her two children, 13 year old Maya and 7 year old Victor, are driving to the tiny island of Fanoe many miles from their former home in Copenhagen. Emma has just inherited a house from her grandmother, and since Emma is currently unemployed and broke, she decided that moving there was the best way she could provide for her family until she decided what she wanted to do. The morning after they arrive, Emma is awakened by sirens and learns that a woman just doors up from Emma's new house has been murdered. Intrigued, Emma decides to write about it. Then more murders follow.
At first I really liked the book, especially the parts with Astrid in the past and her ordeal in the bunker. I also liked the parts with the murderer and his victims. Unfortunately I never really warmed up to Emma. On top of that, I just didn't buy into the ending. It felt kind of rushed to me after the build-up. And if anyone has arachnophobia, this definitely isn't the book for them because there are spiders all over the place. I wonder if Fanoe means place-of-many-spiders.
I got the book for free on Amazon, and I have several others in the series that I also got for free, so I'll probably read them. The book was enjoyable enough even if Emma didn't really capture my interest.
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Itsy Bitsy Spider by Willow Rose
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
In 1977, a young Danish woman named Astrid finds herself locked in a bunker. At first she thinks that she'll quickly be rescued, but as the hours and days pass, she begins to realize with horror that she could very well die locked away and forgotten.
In 2012, Emma Frost and her two children, 13 year old Maya and 7 year old Victor, are driving to the tiny island of Fanoe many miles from their former home in Copenhagen. Emma has just inherited a house from her grandmother, and since Emma is currently unemployed and broke, she decided that moving there was the best way she could provide for her family until she decided what she wanted to do. The morning after they arrive, Emma is awakened by sirens and learns that a woman just doors up from Emma's new house has been murdered. Intrigued, Emma decides to write about it. Then more murders follow.
At first I really liked the book, especially the parts with Astrid in the past and her ordeal in the bunker. I also liked the parts with the murderer and his victims. Unfortunately I never really warmed up to Emma. On top of that, I just didn't buy into the ending. It felt kind of rushed to me after the build-up. And if anyone has arachnophobia, this definitely isn't the book for them because there are spiders all over the place. I wonder if Fanoe means place-of-many-spiders.
I got the book for free on Amazon, and I have several others in the series that I also got for free, so I'll probably read them. The book was enjoyable enough even if Emma didn't really capture my interest.
This entry was originally posted at http://sp23.dreamwidth.org/645482.html. Please comment there using OpenID.