The first audiobook in my summer reading challenge.
The Heights
Louise Candlish
He thinks he’s safe up there.
But he’ll never be safe from you.
The Heights is a tall, slender apartment building among the warehouses of Shad Thames, its roof terrace so discreet you wouldn’t know it existed if you weren’t standing at the window of the flat directly opposite. But you are. And that’s when you see a man up there – a man you’d recognize anywhere. He’s older now and his appearance has subtly changed, but it’s definitely him.
Which makes no sense at all since you know he has been dead for over two years.
You know this for a fact.
Because you’re the one who killed him.
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It has been a while since I have read this kind of thriller. When it was released a couple of years ago I couldn’t seem to escape it so I put it on my list and recently when I was looking at audiobooks for some reason it popped into my head and I decided that it would be the perfect moment for a bit of a genre change.
I was intrigued, to say the least, about the description of the book and had assumed that it would be a bit of a high-stakes fast-paced story which wasn’t quite the case. Instead, this is an exploration of an event that devastates a family and sets them on a pretty unique and desperate path.
These books can often be quite hard to review because I know that saying the wrong thing will spoil it for other readers, but the plot is executed very well, there are a couple of different POVs, and these take us through the events of the past and the current predicament of finding someone alive that you believed to be dead.
I liked the narrative being from both Ellen and Vic because it added a little more insight into what was happening with Lucas, their son, and because it led me to more questions which made me want to keep reading. I wouldn’t say it was that on the edge of my seat, gripped until the end, twists here there and everywhere kind of story but I was interested to know what the catalyst was for these characters to be set on this path and I did like that the story went in a couple of ways that I didn’t expect.
The book is mainly told from Ellen’s perspective and she is not the easiest person to warm to, though I could understand where she was coming from and she is so well-written for the circumstances she finds herself in. I did find there were some things we discovered about her that I’m not sure made much sense to me as to why they were included, and she could be overly intense which could be grating in the first half of the story but did make more sense by the end.
I listened to this as an audiobook and the narration was fantastic, there were different narrators which I always enjoy, Genevieve Gaunt and Milo Twomey were Ellen and Vic and were both brilliant and Louise Candlish narrated the newspaper sections which added a little extra insight as we progress through the story.
I definitely enjoyed the story it wasn’t what I expected, more slow burn than fast-paced and twisty, but I did want to read to the end and I liked coming back to the story.
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