Historical
A time travel book starting with a lone farmhouse and a ghostly whisper is doing exactly the sort of thing I’ll show up for.
I don’t need every mechanism explained within an inch of its life. If a story can make the atmosphere feel slightly wrong in a good way, I’m usually happier than I am with a tidy diagram of how the impossible works. This one sounds like it might lean eerie first, logic second, which is often where the interesting bit lives.
I don’t need every mechanism explained within an inch of its life. If a story can make the atmosphere feel slightly wrong in a good way, I’m usually happier than I am with a tidy diagram of how the impossible works. This one sounds like it might lean eerie first, logic second, which is often where the interesting bit lives.
That opening does the useful thing, which is make me curious before I’ve had time to be fussy about the rules of the time travel. I’m usually more interested in whether the book can keep the human side grounded. If Rebecca feels real, the impossible can be as messy as it likes.
Also, farmhouse + ghostly whisper is a decent little promise. Quiet settings can carry a lot when the tension is doing its job.
Also, farmhouse + ghostly whisper is a decent little promise. Quiet settings can carry a lot when the tension is doing its job.