My rating: 2 of 5 stars
Category: Young Adult
Genre: Mystery, suspense, Paranormal, Fantasy
Content: Clean as far as I know.
It should have been just another quiet night on the farm when Logan witnessed the attack, but it wasn’t.
Something is in the woods.
Something unexplainable.
Something deadly.
Hundreds
of miles away, Chrystal’s plans for summer in Manhattan are abruptly
upended when her dad reads tabloid coverage of some kind of grisly
incident in Oklahoma. When they arrive to investigate, they find a
witness: a surprisingly good-looking farm boy.
As townsfolk start
disappearing and the attacks get ever closer, Logan and Chrystal will
have to find out the truth about whatever’s hiding in the woods…before
they become targets themselves.
DNF.
I thought this
would be a good creepy supernatural thriller, but unfortunately it fell
flat. The main characters are a farm boy who aspires to be a poet and a
teen girl who accompanies her father—a kindergarten teacher who dabbles
in cryptology—to the scene of an unusual killing and possible big foot
sighting. There were a few parts where I thought someone needed to save me from the
silly teen inner monologues, and at times I would read a sentence and
think it was amateurish.
The biggest problem I have with the book though,
is that I didn't get what I was expecting. There was nothing creepy or
thrilling about it. Once I decided I didn't want to finish the book I
did skim over to the end to find out what was behind the mysterious
killings. I easily predicted what the creatures were. I'm not going to
say what they were here, but I will say that there are so many books
like this out there, and this one just blends into the rest with nothing
to make it really stand out.
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