When Teddy Colne arrives in the small town of Rye, he believes he will be able to settle down and leave his past behind him. Little does he know that fear blisters through the streets like a fever. The locals tell him to stay away from an establishment known only as Berry & Vincent, that those who rub too closely to its proprietor risk a bad end.
Despite their warnings, Teddy is desperate to understand why Rye has come to fear this one man, and to see what really hides behind the doors of his shop.
Ada moved to Rye with her young son to escape a damaged childhood and years of never fitting in, but she’s lonely, and ostracised by the community. Ada is ripe for affection and friendship, and everyone knows it.
As old secrets bleed out into this town, so too will a mystery about a family who vanished fifty years earlier, and a community living on a knife edge.
Teddy looks for answers, thinking he is safe, but some truths are better left undisturbed, and his past will find him here, just as it has always found him before. And before long, it will find Ada too.
One of the things that appealed to me about this book is
that it is set in Rye which isn’t far from me and I remember walking up the narrow
hilly walk way street as a youngster and feeling so claustrophobic as though
the shops were swallowing me whole so it was already a chilling setting in my
mind before the authors dark descriptive writing then started to work on the
cold creepy Curio shop that is at the heart of So Pretty by Ronnie Turner.
Teddy arrives in Rye for yet another new start after his fathers
sins are still chasing him but he seems to have struck gold in this quiet
sleepy town of Rye when he lands a job in an ole Curio shop but as the whispers
start it soon becomes clear the shop and its owner are not welcomed into the
arms of the community but at least it gives him a new start and somewhere to
lay low.
The chapters alternate between Teddy and Ada, who is also a
relative new comer to Rye with her adorable little boy Albie but two years
later and Ada is still an outsider never really being embraced by the community
and Teddy sees the loneliness in her and a friendship begins but soon Ada
starts to notice changes, could all the whispers about the Curio shop have some
element of truth.
The way this author manages to draw you in to the storyline
with the sense of evil slowly beginning to seep in around the characters like a
disease slowly spreading and then before you know it you have reached a whole
new kind of disturbing and sinister feel that makes you sick to the core!
It is an unpredictable read but this is mainly because you don’t
realise you are slowly being absorbed into this chilling and toxic storyline
and are too busy in the here and now to even think about trying to look ahead
in preparation.
This book is perfect for those who like dark Gothic chilling
storylines that ooze evil through each and every page.
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