The memory of these people also disappears. Their voices, laughter, and the warmth of their breathing, flesh, and bones disappear. In Margaret’s opinion, people disappear when they are dying. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. It was chilling and haunting and I found it truly hard to put down.Īny purchases made via retailer links provided in this article may result in this site receiving a share of that sale.These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. Her love of stories, her love of books is so evident here and this is a book that will be beloved by those who love books. The talent of Diane Setterfield and her ability to describe, to write vividly real characters and worlds is exceptional. This is one of my ultimate favourite reads and having reread it, it still stands as true. If languorously descriptive writing bothers you, if you don’t enjoy character driven stories, if you want clearly defined right and wrong, and perfectly closed up endings … you probably won’t like this story.īut if you want a ghost story, mystery, and a book that will completely immerse you … you might find your next favourite book here.

If you want to get lost in words, worlds, and characters … this will be your book. Resulting in characters so bloody believable, worlds so ridiculously real … it’s hard to put the book down and reemerge into your regular life.

This is a natural born storyteller with a gift for words tediously and often over-achievingly describing worlds and emotions. This is misty and spooky, and full of swirling clouds of fog, grande estates and slowly revealed mysteries. So I listened to The Thirteenth Tale on audiobook. In my mind I set a goal of re-reading past favourites in 2020 to see if they still stand true. My husband bought me The Thirteenth Tale 13 years ago when it was released and I remember the story sunk me in completely. But do know that The Thirteenth Tale is one of my all time favourite books and this review is 1000% biased. I love it, what more can I say to myself than that? But because I do purport to write about all that I read … I will attempt to write a few words here. This becomes exceptionally difficult when I love a book. But I never consider calling myself a reviewer. I might convince you or not to read something, and you most certainly will disagree with what I say. I feel the threads of the plot, the voices of the characters, the anger/love swirl of emotions churned up through the read cannot be quieted until I write down my thoughts.Īnd then, there they are. Rather I am just discussing, with myself, my thoughts on my reads.

Why do I “review” books? Honestly I don’t consider myself a reviewer because I am not trying to convince you to read or not read any book.

Let’s talk the review process, favourites & biases:

The 13th tale book summary