A review by ngallion
Sundial by Catriona Ward

4.0

There’s a lot to love here. The pacing is perfect and plot threads are woven together just about perfectly. Strange things slowly develop so that you may not even notice them at first, but soon you start making connections and hypotheses between all kinds of things that are going on. Unfortunately, I’m not sure that the ending is quite as satisfying as it could have been. We spend lots of time with the mother and one of the daughters, but significantly less time understanding the motivations of the father. I suppose that means that we should take the things we’re told about him at face value, but this reads in such a way that it seemed almost certain that the mother was an unreliable narrator when, in fact, it seems that was never the author’s intention. All of that knocked this down a bit for me, but I’m still going to be on the lookout for pretty much anything Ward writes moving forward.