This twisty, turny folk horror is really difficult to review as I don’t want to give anything away so I apologise in advance if I leave gaps.

The book is written in a non-linear fashion, bouncing back and forth along the timeline and the perspective of events changes as they’re relived by the same character, but through a different lens and sometimes with differing events. As the reader, you form opinions of the characters and what’s going on along the way but are forced to change them as things progress.

Amber is on a camping trip in the forest with Gabe, her boyfriend, that much we can be sure of – after that? We can’t be sure of a damn thing. But don’t let this put you off, everything is revealed in a satisfactory way at the end and you get to find out if any of your guesses were correct (about 90% nope in my case). This book is one long fever dream with elements of horror, which is often confusing but very compelling.

I did find the repetition of some of the events a bit long but the fresh perspective in these scenes was interesting and gives insight into how our memories change and distil over time. Amber is a complicated protagonist and it’s impossible to tell whether or not she’s a likable person – she suffers from a non-specific mental illness and her behaviour is frequently erratic, which makes her an unreliable narrator while you find yourself agonising alongside her over whether or not what she’s experiencing is real. You can’t form an opinion on Gabe on way or the other as her view of him changes too often for you to see what he’s truly like as a person. This complexity was impressive and kept me reading to the end.