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The Night Gardener follows two abandoned Irish siblings who travel to work as servants at a creepy, crumbling English manor house. But the house and its family are not quite what they seem. Soon the children are confronted by a mysterious spectre and an ancient curse that threatens their very lives. With Auxier’s exquisite command of language, The Night Gardener is a mesmerizing read and a classic in the making.
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This suffers from having been stretched way beyond what was necessary. This would have worked so much better as a short story or shorter. This book has 345 pages and after 200 pages I was ready to DNF the book but I stuck it out. And honestly that was a bad choice as I feel like I wasted my time.
Nothing exciting really happens until the end of part 2 and the start of part 3. So only about 80 pages was really engaging and that’s not a good ratio. The Night Gardener through most of the story is just mentioned in passing, and the story ultimately focuses on the problems the childrean and the family they work for are having.
The idea behind a killer tree working vicariously through a person is interesting, but it took way to long for this to come to fruition and ultimate made it feel lack luster in the reveal.
I listened to the audiobook for this one and it almost put me to sleep, that’s how slow and unexciting a majority of this story was.
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