The Gift- Blog Tour

 

Author: RA William 

Publisher: Whitefox Publishing 

Publishing date: 9th December 2021 

Many Thanks to the publishing team and Random Thing Tours for my hardback copy and spot on the tour

Blurb

The North Atlantic, 14 April 1912. 

Amid the chaos of the sinking Titanic, a young Eleanor Annenberg meets the eyes of a stranger and is immediately captivated. 

As the ship buckles around them, she follows him down into the hold and finds him leaning over an open sarcophagus, surrounded by mutilated bodies. 

She catches but a glimpse of what lies within before she's sucked into a maelstrom of freezing brine and half-devoured corpses. 

Elle is pulled out of the water, but the stranger - and the secrets she stumbled upon - are lost. 

Unintentionally, however, he leaves her a gift; one so compelling that Elle embarks on a journey that pulls her into a world of ancient evils, vicious hunters and human prey to find the man who saved her that fateful night. 

From trench warfare at Cape Helles in 1915 to a shipwreck in the tropical shallows off the Honduran coast, from a lost mine beneath the towering Externsteine in a Germany on the verge of war to the gothic crypts of Highgate Cemetery in London, Elle gets closer to a truth she has sought for most of her life. 

But at what cost? 

Gifts, after all, are seldom free.

My Thoughts

I've not read a gothic thriller in a while so this was a perfect read. The hardback edition is beautiful too!

The tone of the book is set straightaway with that one fateful night when the titanic sinks but further truths are released. Eleanor Annenberg witness an event during this time and  goes on a journey to figure out what has truly happened. I enjoyed how there was a change in dates in the narrative, when Dr Mauss agrees with her theory we begin to learn more and the outlook is changed and challenged. I liked Ella's character, her determination, feistiness and her drive was translated well on paper.

It has so many elements of different of supernatural that it ties in well. What also was really well done was historical elements were weaved in which added that uniqueness to the book. There are some illustrative maps which are brilliant. 

This is part of a trilogy and I cannot wait to read the next chapter. 

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