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Harrowgate
Harrowgage is a debut novel by Kate Maruyama. The story revolves around a married couple, Michael and Sarah who are excited to welcome their first child together. However, Sarah gives birth while Michael is away on an excursion and comes back to New York to find his wife behaving oddly with their new son Tim who she does not want him to touch. Also, Sarah has gotten a new friend called Greta who comes and goes as she pleases and seems to have an undisguised hostility towards Michael.I don't want to give anything away in my review since I was very surprised by what this story was ultimately about. I will say in a general way that I was surprised in a good way by this novel. I was not expecting the novel to take the direction it did and I kept hoping for things to work out differently. I felt for Michael and Sarah and ultimately found myself afraid for both of them and moved to tears in parts. I wish that the author had a better explanation regarding some of the people and the Harrowgate. For example, I was perplexed if the Harrowgate was the reason that certain things were occurring or not. I thought the ending when it came was not as climatic as I hoped it would be, but parts of it were so sad that I ended up coming around in my thinking and finding as a whole I liked the book.
As other reveiwers have mentioned there was some repetition with regards to some of the phrases and that was tedious after a while but I only really noticed it once in a while since I was that engrossed in the story.
Please note that I received this novel for free via the Amazon Vine Program.