I am not sure what I thought of this book- I didn't like Enya or her husband at all and felt they deserved each other. Was Enya having a midlife crisis, or was she just feeling guilty? The ending was a little bit of a surprise. You'll have to read it yourself and make up your own mind.

I was sent a copy of Into the Storm by Cecelia Ahern to read and review by NetGalley. I have mixed feelings about this novel. I really enjoyed the aspect of Irish mythology and the Rag Tree, but I felt the book was very repetitious which in turn made it far too long for me. Not one of my favourites from this author I’m afraid.

There’s a mystery at the heart of this novel but it’s not the reason to read it. Equal parts atmospheric and ordinary, it’s the tale of a stressed-out GP who thinks her world is falling apart, so she takes a break from her urban, domestic life in a picturesque village, but she discovers that distance cannot take you way from yourself, and your own guilt. Way too many red herrings, very few sympathetic characters, but full of creepy folksy village atmosphere, I felt that this novel had ambitions that it failed to live up to. In a year when so many wonderful folk horror novels came out, this is an unsuccessful mash-up with Ahern’s more usual domestic melodramas, with the folkloric aspects as set dressing.