Typical Books EP110 - BOOK REVIEW- Voices in the Snow by Darcy Coates

Chilly Gothic Horror for Spooky Nights!

Today on Typical Books with Lydia we have Voices in the Snow by Darcy Coates.

This was published in 2020 via Poisoned Pen and is the first part of the Black Winter series.

Clare meets Dorran under the wildest of circumstance. Normally, when a story is at its heart a girl-meets-boy story I balk. I bail. I barf. But not here, as it is more of a girl-meets-house like many Coates novels are.

I can relate to so much of this - driving in the most hellish of winter, being stranded in the cold, dealing with distance between family members be it physical or not. I’ve no real experience with the heart of this story, however, which is a true monstrosity, and it is played out very well.

There are some minor plot questions and some minor gardening, time, and physics questions I had but these are small compared to the scope and plot as I enjoyed it all very much. I could guess that half of my questions would be answered had I re-read back a little instead of ploughing forward, but it was a compelling page-turner if there is one.

Looking forward to the next book in this series and I’ve rarely ever wanted to read a series so that is saying quite a bit!

Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel TypicalBooks.

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