Pine
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Narrated by:
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Cathleen McCarron
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Written by:
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Francine Toon
About this listen
They are driving home from the search party when they see her. The trees are coarse and tall in the winter light, standing like men.
Lauren and her father, Niall, live alone in the Highlands, in a small village surrounded by pine forest. When a woman stumbles out onto the road one Halloween night, Niall drives her back to their house in his pickup. In the morning, she’s gone.
In a community where daughters rebel, men quietly rage, and drinking is a means of forgetting, mysteries like these are not out of the ordinary. The trapper found hanging with the dead animals for two weeks. Locked doors and stone circles. The disappearance of Lauren’s mother a decade ago.
Lauren looks for answers in her tarot cards, hoping she might one day be able to read her father’s turbulent mind. Neighbours know more than they let on, but when local teenager Ann-Marie goes missing it’s no longer clear whom she can trust.
In the shadow of the Highland forest, Francine Toon captures the wildness of rural childhood and the intensity of small-town claustrophobia. In a place that can feel like the edge of the word, she unites the chill of the modern Gothic with the pulse of a thriller. It is the perfect novel for our haunted times.
©2019 Francine Toon (P)2019 Penguin AudioCritic Reviews
"It's both eerie and thrilling at once, and had me under its spell until the end." (Sophie Mackintosh, author of The Water Cure)
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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Performance3 out of 5 stars
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Story3 out of 5 stars
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- 10-02-25
Starts out good, fizzles out later
Pine belongs to the gothic thriller genre - with some parts about a crime & psychological thriller; and some parts being supernatural. The story started out interesting and whimsical almost. But the book doesn’t feature the disappearance of one of its characters (this is a major plot point on the back cover), until we are almost 75% through the book. It almost feels like the author was having so much fun writing all the elements of witchcraft and cartomancy, that she forgot she had to deliver on the thriller/crime and had to solve the mystery. The end feels very rushed and the revelation of the criminal an afterthought - which makes the book loose power and fizzle out at the end.
This is an okay listen. The narrator does have a Scottish accent - but we can get used to it after some time. However, the narrator doesn’t capture the anxiety and fear that would be natural during the trying and dark times the characters face. In those sections , the tone used feels inappropriate.
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