See What I Have Done

I'm a bit torn with this book - on one hand I did enjoy the writing and the bulk of story with multiple POVs, but I did feel that it slowed down at the end which made it drag.

The writing is very atmospheric and visceral, making you feel what the characters were feeling and tasting and smelling. This alone made the book quite different, as I don't think I've read a story with quite such evocative writing.

My issues with the book are more about the plot - the story is based on the true crime of the Borden murders but as this is a fictionalised story there could have been so much more done with it! The few basic facts were there (and repeated!) but the story could have been expanded on to make this an excellent book. Another issue was the POV of Benjamin, who seemed to only be in the story to be able to fill in the later pages with the trial. He seemed so completely out of place that I just switched off at that point, after that chapter my attention was lost.

I liked the inclusion of the timeline at the end but would have thought there would be a note on the historical events and how she researched them. Maybe that's just me though.