Darkly mysterious, wholly addictive

 

⭑⭑⭑⭑⭑  I have, oddly, read more than a couple books on the English civil war in the last few years but none have sparked my imagination quite like The Leviathan. This story stuck with me.

Setting off in Norfolk 1643 things are not quite as they seem when Thomas Treadwater receives a letter from his sister urgently recalling him home from the battle. He obeys and finds things in a terrible state. Rosie Andrews deftly weaves a tale that I mistook for a particular direction but, instead, it twists back on itself to reveal something entirely different. It was well executed and created a novel I was happy to have lead me about knowing not where it would go. Atmospheric, suspenseful and enthralling. The Leviathan has it all.