![]() ![]() ![]() We felt a good editor would have pointed this out to Purcell. The real struggle we had with the story was the staggering number of red herrings it was just too many. They came out pretty freaking creepy! I hid them around the house (and one in the bathroom) for maximum creepiness. Jump to The Silent Companions discussion questionsįor this book club meet-up, I made paper dummy boards/ silent companions. While the book did have its issues, some are due to misled expectations. ![]() (We got more scares from Annihilation.) The story is a slow-burn Victorian gothic that, sadly, was marketed hard as scare-your-pants-off horror story. The group agreed that while The Silent Companions certainly delivered on creepy, it rarely got into the realm of scary. We chose The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell as our spooky book for the Halloween season. After that, things devolve pretty quickly and we learn that everyone has secrets-including the house. She finds an antique in her new home, a carved wooden figure, a Silent Companion. ![]() How about we stay inside with our own calm thoughts to keep us company, eh? As you can guess, this does not work out well for Elsie. We’ll meet the small resentful staff for the first time, and the local villagers who are not all that friendly either. Gas-lighting or true haunting? Past trauma or mental health condition? In The Silent Companions, we take the bumpy carriage ride with Elsie, a newly widowed pregnant woman, to her isolated estate in Victorian England. ![]()
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