I'm not sure why Camilla Sten's aren't everywhere, because this was her second book I've read and her second book I've LOVED. I think I liked this one even more than The Lost Village!

This book starts off with the main character Eleanor walking in on her grandmother being murdered. She has a disease called prosopagnosia, also known as face blindness, which makes her unable to recognize faces. Because of this, she is unable to recognize the face of her grandmother's murderer - something which haunts her in the months to come following her grandmother's death.

Flash forward a few months, and Eleanor is informed that her grandmother had a house in the country - a sweeping estate tucked into the Swedish woods - that is being left to her. Eleanor, her boyfriend Sebastian, her aunt Viktoria, and the estate's attorney Rickard all travel together to the sweeping estate, which hasn't been lived in for over 40 years. However, once they get to the estate, the caretaker, Bengstonn, is nowhere to be found.... and something feels off about the estate. Eleanor starts feeling like there is someone else in the woods with them - is she right, or is it the past trauma of her grandmother's murder resurfacing?

Is a solid mystery thriller…not anything ground breaking storyline wise but the narrator was fun to listen to. She did a great job with accents and kept the story from feeling flat.

This was a solid thriller. A bit slow at the start but there is a huge pickup about midway through and it ends with a fantastic conclusion. The multiple timelines was a very interesting way to learn about the characters and see where they came from and what they are up to during current times. Highly recommend.

Thanks to Netgalley and Macmillan Audio who sent me an ARC audiobook of this title in exchange for my honest review.

Camila Sten's The Resting Place follows main character Eleanor who lives with prosopagnosia, the inability to recognize faces. When Eleanor walks in on her grandmother Vivianne's murder, but can't recognize the murderer's face or answer the police's questions about what the suspect looked like, she faces increased paranoia, anxiety, and stress. Eleanor's grandmother leaves her an estate, which she goes to investigate with her boyfriend Sebastian, the lawyer, and her aunt Veronika. But secrets of the past don't stay hidden, and Eleanor's paranoia increases with the isolation of the mansion in the woods.

Told in two perspectives, Eleanor's and a past timeline of a maid of Vivianne's in the 1960s, this story was propulsive and creepy. Sten does a wonderful job at creating a sense of unease as the reader navigates new territory with Eleanor. The setting of the house in the woods was eerie and unsettling. The first half of the book left me in a constant state of anxiety wondering what was going on and if the property was really uninhabited.

The narrator of this audiobook did a wonderful job. She annunciated clearly with good pacing and emphasis on words and phrases. She used subtly different voices for different characters and even took into account the events of the story when reading certain sections. For example, when one of the characters is injured, his dialogue is spoken in a strained manner with coughs and sharp intakes of breath. This made the story all the more immersive and eerie to listen to. I truly felt as if I were following these characters around this house as they uncovered all of its secrets.

While I did predict some of the twists, I was shocked at the final result. Even so, it didn't feel like the twists came out of left field. They were plausible and tied all of the strings from the past and present timelines together. I had one issue with the plot, but talking about it would be a spoiler, so I won't mention it here.

Overall, I really enjoyed this audiobook. The writing was spectacular, the narration was pleasant, and the plot was enjoyable and surprising. High recommend!

Thank you to Macmillan Audio and NetGalley for the advanced listening copy of this audiobook!

I listened to this audiobook in one day. I just needed to find out what happened.

The characters were well written and the plot was riveting. The narrator was great and added to the listening experience. This is one that's begging to be read again.

This was atmospheric and creepy, flipping back and forth between a present time abandoned mansion, and the family and help from the past that lived there. I was pretty intrigued throughout this story, but had a difficult time keeping up with all of the characters, especially toward the end. I also feel that one of the main pieces of the ending (don't want to spoil!) comes out of left field. There are just a lot of things happening in this novel--facial blindness, old murders, recent murders, missing characters, affairs, family abandonment, changed identities.....while entertaining, it just seemed like too much was trying to be packed in several hundred pages and it all got confusing at times.

Many thanks to NetGalley and MacMillan Audio for an ARC of this audiobook in exchange for my honest feedback.

I received a free Advanced Reading Copy via NetGalley in exchange for a complete and honest review.
This book was very interesting. I didn’t fully understand what was going on until the last 5%. This was probably due to there being too many characters with similar V-starting names. Also, I wish we got a little more backstory on Anushka, we only see her progression and growth in glances but nothing more than that. Also, Eleanor, the protagonist, has prosopagnosia but it's not even necessary. The blurb made it seem like Eleanor’s prosopagnosia was going to have such a huge impact on the plot, but it just wasn’t done well at all. I truly think the author should have done more research on it so that she could incorporate it more seamlessly. It felt as if Eleanor’s prosopagnosia was brought up only when it was convenient.
Overall, this book was okay. It was entertaining but I hated how it took so long to understand the plot.

This is a great thriller. The narrator is incredible at setting the atmosphere and delivering the story. I enjoyed the plot and had me invested from page one. It’s sad that the author reminds us that even hero’s become villains.

If you read Sten’s last book, The Lost Village, you know how much she enjoys exploring creepy places. In The Resting Place, readers get to explore a forgotten mansion that is haunted by its secrets. It’s not ghosts that scare you in this book, it’s the decades of lies and buried secrets.
Not so much a horror book as it is a suspenseful thriller, the story has an excellent build up with back story, to the big twist. Actually, there are multiple twists that are unexpected. I really enjoyed this book, and the atmosphere within it.
The narrator of the audiobook was excellent. Her Polish accent was perfect! I also found her voice for Vivianne was creepy and fitting of her character. Overall the audio added a whole vibe to the book that was creepy and atmospheric.

Slow building gothic thriller. Not as good as the Village, which was much faster paced, and a higher level suspense throughout.

The endgame is fantastic and I was definitely gripped by the story. The flashback between timelines kept things taught... wondering what the connections. I kept trying to make connections. And while I was sometimes within the ballpark, I was never playing the same game.

It was very well plotted out towards the end game. Also, this is the second book this year dealing with prosopagnosia. But the other was an American author: Alice Feeny's Rock, Paper, Scissors.

As always, Angela Dawe, is a pro. One of the best narrators out there.

The book is paced perfectly, simultaneously a page-turner and yet giving enough time for the foreboding atmosphere to set in. Similar to The Lost Village, The Resting Place jumps back and forth between the present with Eleanor and the past, as told through Anuska’s diary. The two stories come together as the secrets of the past are revealed in the present. I was able to predict the major twist prior to the reveal, but it did not ruin my enjoyment of the story.

Much like The Lost Village, Sten does a fantastic job of creating a sense of isolation. Between the location and the blizzard that consumes them, the characters might as well be on another planet. She also does an amazing job of breathing life into her settings. Similar to the village of Silvertjarn, Solhoga is as much of a character as Eleanor, Anushka or the others. And as the story goes on, and the characters realize that they are not alone, Sten captures their increasing paranoia and panic through both dialogue and description.

Having loved both The Lost Village and The Resting Place, I am very much looking forward to reading more books from Camilla Sten.

Audio Review: I couldn't find narrator information online yet, but I loved the audiobook production. I feel like the accents add a lot to the atmosphere of the book, and help to indicate who was who while listening. I also liked the chance to hear the pronunciation of places and names that I might not have said correctly otherwise.

So eerie and atmospheric.

I loved the dual timelines and how they gradually become clearer and clearer the further in you go. I didn’t know how the family intertwined but this is definitely a family full of secrets, lies and deceit. And some sorrow as well.

I think the characters weren’t too extremely likeable but they were understandable. You felt for what they were going through so you were able to sympathize.

It shows a lot about mental health and class and wealth and what some are willing to do to hold their secrets and how those secrets tend to eat away at you.

I really enjoyed this story. And the narrator was great to listen to.

Prosopagnosia...I had never heard of this, and now I'm absolutely terrified of it. Not being able to recognize people by their faces would be so scary! The MC may have seen the killer of her grandmother, but she won't be able to recognize them because of her prosopagnosia...Yikes! I thought this was a spooky story, and I enjoyed the plot with all its twisty turns!

I really enjoyed the narrator for the audio of this book. I thought she did a fantastic job of bringing this story to life!

Eleanor has come face-to-face with her grandmother, Vivianne's, killer. Unfortunately, Eleanor also has prosopagnosia, or face blindness, so she cannot identify the murderer. But does the killer know this? Eleanor's anxiety and terror mount every day with the stress of knowing someone has gotten away with murder and she may be next.
In the meantime, her grandmother's attorney calls. It seems Eleanor has inherited a beautiful old house in the Swedish woods. The place her grandfather died and where a secrets have been buried for 50 years.
Eleanor, her boyfriend, Sebastian, her aunt Veronika and the lawyer All go to this house of secrets, looking for answers. But as they get closer to bringing the truth to light, they’ll wish they had never come to disturb what rests there.
Camilla Sten is my new favorite.! I love the way the suspense builds in her novels.

*Special thanks to NetGalley and Minotaur Books for an early copy of this novel.*

The cover of this book was what drew me in when I first read the story. The description of a woman with prosopagnosia (the inability to remember or recall faces) who saw the person who murdered her grandmother, but can’t identify them was intriguing. When the protagonist inherits the house from her grandmother, there’s a setup for some creepy haunted house shenanigans in the woods. Sadly, when I read this book I simply didn’t care for any of the characters and so it was hard to feel invested in what happened to them. Dawe does an admirable job of reading the story, but I still couldn’t bring myself to care bout the truly awful people who populate this book