Additionally, the narrative doesn't operate linearly, adding further confusion. I found the beginning of the book to be very confusing due to the many characters to keep track of. Robert’s character is dark and disconcerting. However, by the end, she got under my skin. I liked her, but I couldn’t connect with her. However, there are only two narrators: Maggie and Robert. There are many characters to keep track of in the past and present timelines. The plot is complicated and has many layers in two different timelines-one in the 1990s the other in the present. 20 years later, she investigates what really happened to make her believe she was Andrew, leading her to expose buried secrets. When Maggie was 5 years old, she believed she was to be reincarnated with the soul of Andrew, a man from the Outer Hebrides. The Blackhouse is a slow-burn novel about a 5-year-old girl who claims to be the reincarnation of a murdered man. Unnerving, enthralling, and filled with gothic suspense, The Blackhouse is a spectacularly sinister tale readers won’t soon forget. But when she begins to receive ominous threats, Maggie is forced to consider how much she is willing to risk to discover the horrifying truth. Nearly twenty years later, Maggie is determined to find out what really happened, and what the islanders are hiding. Her unfounded claim drew media attention and turned the locals against each other, creating rifts that never mended. When Maggie was five years old, she announced that a man on Kilmeray-a place she’d never visited-had been murdered. And as the legendary and violent Hebridean storms rage around him, he begins to unravel, believing his fate on the remote island of Kilmeray cannot be escaped.įor her entire life, Maggie MacKay has sensed something was wrong with her. But despite his best efforts to fit in, Robert is always seen as an outsider.

Robert Reid moved his family to Scotland’s Outer Hebrides in the 1990s, driven by hope, craving safety and community, and hiding a terrible secret. A richly atmospheric thriller set on an isolated Scottish island where nothing is as it seems and shocking twists lie around every corner.Ī remote village.

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