A review by kime
The Stopped Heart by Julie Myerson

5.0

This is such a wonderfully written book. It's so atmospheric and I really felt like I had been transported back into the lives of the characters, especially Eliza and her family. The books tends to move alone at a normal pace and then suddenly it pops with small snippets of creepiness. Sometimes I had to stop and read a paragraph again as something so strange would happen or be said and I'd need to double check that I had understood it correctly. This is a book about love, loss, sexual awakening and the true nature of evil. It has all of these things rolled into one. And of course, some very strange yet vivid characters. And although the ending did leave some questions unanswered, this will go down as one of my favourite books of the year so far.