This has been on my TBR for a long time - for the lovers of history, bogs, folk horror and bleak stories.  

Silvie’s father has taken her and her mother on an Iron Age reenactment trip with a professor and some students. Silvie’s father is abusive both mentally & physically and he uses his obsession with history to further drive home his abuse. 

I really feel like this did a nice job of bringing up topics around how some men carry this insufferable obsession with “history.” History how they perceive it and then over explain (one might say mansplain) to women - particularly to women who have a great appreciation for history, but I’m still not 100% I liked HOW it was done. These themes were almost too oversimplified. There wasn’t a lot of depth to the book itself - very surface level really. I think it had a purpose and achieved that purpose, but it had a lot of opportunity to dig deeper on these themes but in the end, chose not to. 

I really enjoyed the setting and the concept, but the execution fell flat. 

3/5