Black Rabbit Hall- Eve Chase

I have been left with quite mixed feelings about Black Rabbit Hall after reading it. I began the story expecting a cunning mystery but it ended up being more of a teenage love story. That is a little bit of an exaggeration, but I will explain after a short summary of the book.


Amber lives a happy life spending the Autumn and Spring at Black Rabbit Hall with her family. They love that place. No one seems to mind the ivy crawling up the outside walls and
 the fact that none of the clocks work. Black Rabbit Hall has always been a happy place for Amber. One ordinary afternoon, that changes and her life takes a dozen twists and turns that she could never have predicted. 

30 years later, Lorna and her husband are driving through the Cornish countryside trying to find the perfect venue for their wedding.  After getting lost, running over a deer and being soaked in rain, the couple arrives at Pencraw Hall, or what the locals call Black Rabbit Hall. She immediately falls in love with the dusty rooms and endless hallways of the mansion and becomes attached to the idea of getting married there. Her husband Jon is not so convinced. Little does Lorna know, there is more than the picturesque gardens that draw her to Black Rabbit Hall. As she spends more time there, more secrets unfold, delving deeper and deeper into the lives of the people who used to live there.


I found the two perspectives of Amber and Lorna very interesting to read since their stories 
started out quite different and ended up linking together amazingly. There were many unexpected twists and turns which unfolded tediously throughout the novel. The mystery aspect of the plot was very well done overall. On the other hand, during Amber's perspective, at times I felt like I was reading a teenage romance book! I personally don't love stories about teenage girls crushing on guys they can never be with and this novel seemed to dwell on this part of the story a bit too much. Amongst the plot twists I found at some points things got a little messy and the story ended up as just a whole bunch of mentally unstable characters. Grief was a common theme and the novel was actually quite tragic but the mystery elements, scandals and lies got in the ways of some of that.


Overall, Black Rabbit Hall is a clever mystery with a creative plot but a little too much pathetic romance and over dramatised scandals. Characters are well developed and changes in perpectives keeps the reader on their toes and not wanting to put the book down. Does Black Rabbit Hall sound like a book for you? Let me know in the comments of this post and let me know what kinds of books you like to read.
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