The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell

The Silent Companions
By: Laura Purcell
Published By: Penguin Books
📖📖📖📖.5/5
//I received this ARC for free from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review//

The Silent Companions is the creepy story of a woman, Elsie, who inherits her husband's estate after he dies suddenly. She finds herself in an eerie town that doesn't seem quite right. Not even the home she comes to live in is comforting with less than welcoming servants that want nothing to do with her. To make matters worse, she finds a wooden figure, a companion, in a locked room that looks a lot like herself. Are these wooden figures really "companions" to make her feel less alone or are they something more?

I have to hand it to Purcell. There aren't too many books that properly freak me out and stick with me, but this is one of them. Who wouldn't be freaked out to find some creepy wooden figures in a room? It doesn't matter if they look friendly or not. I'm not going to be comfortable around that. Purcell knows just how much detail to use to make the reader uncomfortable without the story seeming fake. The reader slowly gets introduced to Elsie's background in a way that builds the story without throwing it in your face. Closer to the end of the story you wonder whether or not Elise is really the woman she says she is. Is she really insane? Are the companions really in her head?

I would write more, but I think it would give away too much about the story. Overall, I would highly recommend this book to horror lovers, historical fiction lovers and basically any reader at all. It is that good of a story. It doesn't just speak to one genre. I'd love to read more by this author for sure!

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