Author: Jessie Burton
Publisher: Picador
Release Date: 3rd July 2014
Genre: Fiction
Summary:
Nell Oortman thought that was she marrying into the wealthy family of an Amsterdam merchant. However, her new husband, and his family, are hiding a dangerous secret. He presents Nella a curious and unique wedding gift in the form of a miniature model of their house. Nella soon enlists the help of a miniaturist to help decorate her new toy.
Things soon take a dark turn when she is sent mysterious and intrusive decorations for her model home and the secrets hold within her family start to leak...
Review:
Not going to lie, this is a bit of a weird book.
I just found it quite bizarre.
And I am not sure why.
However, the plot and characters are interesting and the concept of someone looking in to your private life and knowing personal things is quite scary.
But, everything literally happens at once. The first chapters are slow and laborious. Things soon start to pick up but then the excitement fizzles out again. Then, in the final few chapters,
everything is happening and there are so many major points in the characters lives being reached, it is hard to keep up! The every-changing plot pace made it really hard to keep reading and at times it really dragged.
Apart from being weird, it is a good book to waste a couple of hours with.
Rating: 5/10. Weird - would not read again.
You can buy The Miniaturist from Amazon here.
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