Electra's Reviews > Skyeholm

** spoiler alert ** ✨ I want to start off this review by saying thank you to Tamara for sending me a copy of “Skyeholm” for me to read and give my thoughts on! ✨

I was intrigued by the concept of this book and loved the play on “Stockholm Syndrome” with the title! I thought it was quite clever!

I will say, it was a little hard to get though because I got lost every now and again at the start, but I am glad I finished the book and gradually started catching up to what was happening. Some of the time progressions were a little unclear and I would get confused as to how much time had passed.

I do feel that this book could’ve been wrapped up just in this book, I could understand a second, but the story dragged on a bit and felt kind of stagnant in the middle to the end. I was waiting for a build up to maybe the 4 upstairs escaping, or they get released? Maybe even John or Skye (or both!) kill them all! But when I realised where the story ended (especially after Skye noted in detail where all of the guns in the house were), I was a bit disappointed.

The commentary of the inner dialogue in some parts reminded me of the dialogue of a video game character when they are inspecting items or are going away from the main plot of the story and the character says something about turning back (if that makes sense?). Especially when Skye was snooping around the house.
I am conflicted as to whether I liked this or not.

Now to finish this review on some positives 😅

I absolutely loved the twist of John being not only in the police force, but one of the best detectives! No one would suspect that one of the best people in their town is hiding 5 massive secrets in his attic…

I would also love to know more about how and why John and Skye dream of each other. What triggered these dreams? How is it they’re dreaming solely of each other? Why are they having these dreams?
These are questions I would hope get answered in the second book (maybe even the third as this is a trilogy).

I also want to know if the case gets solved and if Charlie really is the other murderer as it seems like things will either lead to him 100% being the second guy, or there being an entirely new character that is actually the other killer.