Reviews

• I must be extremely desensitized. This book gave me nothing but boredom. It was very descriptive, extremely well written by an author with an acute and very vivid imagination. But to me is was long winded and incredibly repetitive. I gave up at 3/4. It took me over a week to get that far. Couldn't get into it.

• I love that this book seems to rile people, what do readers of 'horror' expect! Disturbing, atmospheric and as far as I'm aware - truly original!

• Each word of this macabre little book dances across the page, bold and lyrical, if not poetic. The story grounds itself in the grotesque while beautifully weaving a story too sinister to be a fairytale and too striking to simply be horror. I was immediately drawn in and enraptured by Sophie White’s use of language. Rare is the author who can so masterfully conjoin beauty and brutality in a way that hypnotizes the reader, allowing room for engagement with a protagonist that, in the wrong writer’s hands, might have proved too brutal to garner sympathy. It’s a fine line that separates gratuitous gore and audacious storytelling, and White traverses that path superbly, combining elements of Irish folklore and Gothicism in a strikingly creative way, rendering exquisite vignettes that evoke both curiosity and repulsion. I was stunned to find that Where I End is Sophie White’s first horror novel. She writes with the confidence of a horror veteran and the ambition of a newcomer. She’s an incredible talent whose intriguing style offers something not often found in literature. Here’s to hoping she becomes a lasting voice in the genre. Five big, beautiful stars!

• Good read, good style of wrting, would recommend.

• Beautifully written bleak postpartum Lynchian ride. This and some of the descriptions will sit with me for some time. Very well done.

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