Greg Buchanan's Blog - Posts Tagged "gothic"
CONSUMED now on preorder and Netgalley
Hi everyone!
A couple of years on from my debut Sixteen Horses, my new novel Consumed is now available for preorder and Netgalley requests! It stands alone as a dark crime mystery story, though plenty of easter eggs and a returning character for those who enjoyed 16H!
I wanted to share the first blogger review - it completely captures the gothic tone I was aiming for with this novel and it was so lovely to see this to up yesterday! Thank you to the blogger community as always and I hope the others who read it enjoy just as much!
Premise:
An old woman falls down in a field and - unable to move - is consumed overnight by her two pigs.
In her house, someone has removed all photos from their frames, erasing her past.
An accident, or murder?
Review (5 stars) on Netgalley:
If you like your reads with a distinctly gothic vibe, you’ll be right at home with Consumed. Forensic veterinarian Cooper Allen becomes entangled with the disappearance of a child. Also involved is lauded photographer Sophia Bertilak. Cooper is a hard individual to be get the measure of. Given to self analysis and flights of fancy, Cooper appears rudderless but has a feel for those things that hover just outside of our surroundings. The story focuses on Cooper and Sophia and how they are connected to the missing child but the narrative doesn’t follow traditional detective or missing person crime novels. The whole is more of a walk through ancient woods, never quite knowing where your next step will take you and questioning whether it is night or day. The quotes at the beginning of each chapter add a delicious sense of the ethereal to proceedings and with the supporting characters often having opaque agendas, you feel assured of some unhappy outcomes.
A foreboding and wicked read, ideally enjoyed in a haunted house with a rocking chair creaking somewhere.
Note from Greg:
If you loved Sixteen Horses I am pretty sure you’ll love this, but it’s not required by any means - and in many ways, purposefully inverts various elements from my debut novel. A rich inland hilly town full of ruins and forests vs the poor isolated seaside community of the previous book; a case where the police and investigators seem almost antagonists rather than partners; the inciting incident being the death of a human at the hands of animals rather than the reverse; and much much more waiting to be discovered.
ADD TO GOODREADS:
Consumed
REQUEST:
https://www.netgalley.co.uk/catalog/b...
PREORDER:
https://geni.us/CONSUMED
A couple of years on from my debut Sixteen Horses, my new novel Consumed is now available for preorder and Netgalley requests! It stands alone as a dark crime mystery story, though plenty of easter eggs and a returning character for those who enjoyed 16H!
I wanted to share the first blogger review - it completely captures the gothic tone I was aiming for with this novel and it was so lovely to see this to up yesterday! Thank you to the blogger community as always and I hope the others who read it enjoy just as much!
Premise:
An old woman falls down in a field and - unable to move - is consumed overnight by her two pigs.
In her house, someone has removed all photos from their frames, erasing her past.
An accident, or murder?
Review (5 stars) on Netgalley:
If you like your reads with a distinctly gothic vibe, you’ll be right at home with Consumed. Forensic veterinarian Cooper Allen becomes entangled with the disappearance of a child. Also involved is lauded photographer Sophia Bertilak. Cooper is a hard individual to be get the measure of. Given to self analysis and flights of fancy, Cooper appears rudderless but has a feel for those things that hover just outside of our surroundings. The story focuses on Cooper and Sophia and how they are connected to the missing child but the narrative doesn’t follow traditional detective or missing person crime novels. The whole is more of a walk through ancient woods, never quite knowing where your next step will take you and questioning whether it is night or day. The quotes at the beginning of each chapter add a delicious sense of the ethereal to proceedings and with the supporting characters often having opaque agendas, you feel assured of some unhappy outcomes.
A foreboding and wicked read, ideally enjoyed in a haunted house with a rocking chair creaking somewhere.
Note from Greg:
If you loved Sixteen Horses I am pretty sure you’ll love this, but it’s not required by any means - and in many ways, purposefully inverts various elements from my debut novel. A rich inland hilly town full of ruins and forests vs the poor isolated seaside community of the previous book; a case where the police and investigators seem almost antagonists rather than partners; the inciting incident being the death of a human at the hands of animals rather than the reverse; and much much more waiting to be discovered.
ADD TO GOODREADS:
Consumed
REQUEST:
https://www.netgalley.co.uk/catalog/b...
PREORDER:
https://geni.us/CONSUMED
