The jungle watches. The dead remember.
The virgin rainforest seems a paradise to Englishman Simon Corbett. A last chance to salvage his career. A final refuge from a terrible secret.
But the jungle is no Eden. It hides secrets of its own. It does not forgive.
As Simon is drawn deeper into its haunted shadows, he learns to his horror that the past will not stay buried. For there are places in the forest where the line between the living and the dead is thinner than the skin of water.
What did I think?
Rainforest is the first Michelle Paver book I have read, although I've had my eye on her back catalogue for a while. It was the stunning and mesmerising cover that drew me in but it was the vivid and immersive writing that kept me turning the pages.
It is set in the 1970s and follows Dr Simon Corbett to the South American rainforest where he is studying mantids. Simon is a tortured soul, clinging on to a creepy talisman of his lost love, and he is a brilliantly unreliable narrator. I wasn't sure what was real and what was in his head. I was desperate to find out what had happened to Penelope and couldn't read fast enough to discover both Simon's and the rainforest's secrets.
Dark and disturbing, Rainforest is a haunting tale of obsession and regret filled set in a location that is filled with mystery and secrets. Secrets that must remain hidden at any cost. It's a great book for the dark nights as it definitely creeped me out!
I received a gifted ARC to read and review for the blog tour and this is my honest and unbiased opinion.
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