Thank you so much to Macmillan Australia for providing me with a copy of this book, in exchange for an honest review!
Neena and Josie are best friends,Thank you so much to Macmillan Australia for providing me with a copy of this book, in exchange for an honest review!
Neena and Josie are best friends, who are about to separate, when one of them moves away to college and the other stays behind. Hoping for a fun camping trip before they have to say goodbye for months, they decide to hike into the wilderness for a few days. With little to no experience, the trip doesn’t go at all to plan and the girls find themselves at each other’s throats, which is by far not the worst of it.
Growing up, Richard Laymon was my all time favourite author. His adult horror books were the absolute best and The Woods are Always Watching reminded me of his style of writing. Just with more ‘impending horror’ than ‘actual horror events’, which did lean itself more to the YA genre. This was both a blessing and a curse - I appreciated my mind making a trip down memory lane, to the feeling of reading some of my old favourite books, but I found myself comparing, knowing Laymon would have taken the story so much further. That’s just me though, because in no way was the book marketed as being like his books!
I really enjoyed the suspenseful nature of the story and I honestly wish it had been a little longer. It felt like there wasn’t quite enough pages to build up a truly terrifying ‘lost in the woods’ tale. I guess I just wanted to enjoy it a little longer and have more scares along the way! The story also centers almost entirely around the girls, without much in the way of any other characters until the end, so I do acknowledge that a longer book could have felt drawn out under those circumstances.
Over all The Woods are Always Watching was a fun, spooky book that would have me second thinking any camping trip, if I was ever inclined to take one ...more
Thank you so much to Sourcebooks Fire for providing me with a copy of this book, via Netgalley, in exchange for an honest review!
Sisters Savannah and Thank you so much to Sourcebooks Fire for providing me with a copy of this book, via Netgalley, in exchange for an honest review!
Sisters Savannah and Piper had just had the worst fight of their life on the day Piper fell from a cliff and ended up in a coma. Everyone, including the police, belief she attempted to take her own life, but Savannah isn’t convinced, especially when she finds a strange note in Piper’s locker at school.
On a mission to find out what happened to her sister, and clear some of her own guilt, Savannah joins one of Piper’s school clubs and heads out for the club camping trip, in the hope someone in the group might know something. As the evidence piles up, it points to more and more suspects and Savannah finds herself questioning both friendships and enemies.
Dead Girl’s Can’t Tell Secrets (or, The Dark Way Down – it seems this book has changed it’s original title?) was a fun mystery with plenty of twists. I enjoyed the ‘nobody can be trusted’ premise of the story and thought I had it figured out a bunch of times! (I didn’t ...more
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