Emma Babbington <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Review<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I was keen to read the gardens having loved the neighbours by Emma Babbington. I could picture Willow gardens , growing up in the uk like Emma I could easily visualise the houses and community garden but Chisledown wasn\u2019t quite has clear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The plot was a bit loose and the ending felt unfinished. I hoped it would tie up loose ends and Marcus would be vindicated but I was left feeling no closure. <\/p>\n\n\n\n About:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n It might look idyllic, but the secrets buried there are deadly\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n When human bones are found in the garden attached to the glamorous London home where she grew up, Jess McIntyre prepares to receive the news she has dreaded for thirty-four years: that her sister, Nina, is dead and now here is the proof.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Nina disappeared without a trace in 1992, aged eighteen, the summer she fell in with a charismatic group of friends who squatted in a vacant house on the other side of Willow Gardens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Having moved to Australia years ago, widow and single mum Jess arrives back in London to provide a DNA sample to help the investigation, with her teenage son, Ollie, in tow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As they try and unravel the secrets of Nina’s past, and her connection to a sinister cult, will they discover that some bodies are best left buried\u2026?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Emma Babbington Review I was keen to read the gardens having loved the neighbours by Emma Babbington.Sadly it didn\u2019t hold my attention and I struggled to stay with it. I couldn\u2019t relate to the characters, finding them quite boring. That said I did like Ollie, he had substance and depth. was a typical teenager, two […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":887,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":888,"href":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886\/revisions\/888"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Sadly it didn\u2019t hold my attention and I struggled to stay with it. I couldn\u2019t relate to the characters, finding them quite boring. That said I did like Ollie, he had substance and depth. was a typical teenager, two sides to him, the loving and supportive son when with mum but once out of sight the inquisitive and need to be like lad that got into trouble.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Thank you to Netgalley for allowing me to read this ARC and to the publisher for trusting me to provide an honest review.<\/p>\n\n\n\n