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Bezig met laden... The Ghost Treedoor Christina Henry
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This was a surprisingly boring horror story. I don't know why it was initially so hyped. That's too bad. The blurb advertises spooky woods, but they get little page time. The witches are not mentioned until page two hundred, and then a teen quarrels with her grandmother. The mayor of the small town, even, is too boring to be creepy despite knowing about the tree sacrifice or whatever it is that needs the blood of teen girls. I was looking forward to making a BTVS reference about the mayor, so, too bad. After page two hundred fifty, I fully admit to skimming because I was so bored. This...is not a book about witches in spooky woods. It's about a small town, and I wish the blurb, title, and cover had reflected that. Sigh. ( ) I had to wait ages for this book since someone saw fit to check it out of the library and “adopt” it instead of returning it as normal people would have. When I finally got a copy, I thought it must really be something special since it had inspired someone to almost commit petty larceny. I was a bit disappointed in what, from the book description was supposed to be a strange murder mystery with headless corpses and monsters that were probably not human. It did offer some of that which was the good part of it but some parts were questionable and bordering on the unbelievable. Okay...I agree that anyone that can believe that some monstrous creature actually carried some headless body off through the woods should be okay to believe almost anything...right? I read a lot of m/m romances so I can accept a lot of things... but when it’s a love interest like the characters of Lauren and Jake... something just isn’t right here. Jake is in college and has recently turned 19, Lauren is 13 and about to start Jr. High School. Jake says lines like “I've been into you for a long time”...and "I dream of all the things I would like to do to you"... which is by far creepier than the monster. What? Did he have this huge crush on her when she as 9 or 10? There were only a couple murders when there was enough going on this town to have produced a lot more. Good premise for a good gory story but it fell rather short...and certainly not worth stealing. Entertaining AF! I could not put this down. Stayed up until 3am reading last night and threw myself on the couch with the book as soon as I could today. I loved seeing the action through multiple POVs, including all the red herrings laid in our path. The characters were great. As an aside --- I think I figured out why we are seeing such a spate of 1980s themed horror books - It's the last era in which there was no instant communication available. No beepers, no cell phones, just landlines and a few answering machines here and there. Contacting someone was a hit or miss kind of thing. No instant news. The news came along once a day in the newspaper. Cable news was in its infancy in the mid-eighties and most rural areas did not have access. Life was more insulated. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Prijzen
"In the first horror novel from national bestselling author Christina Henry, a monster stalks the residents of a sleepy town and a teenager who is increasingly plagued by terrifying visions. When the bodies of two girls are found torn apart in the town of Smiths Hollow, Lauren is surprised, but she also expects that the police won't find the killer. After all, the year before her father's body was found with his heart missing, and since then everyone has moved on. Even her best friend, Miranda, has become more interested in boys than in spending time at the old ghost tree, the way they used to when they were kids. So when Lauren has a vision of a monster dragging the remains of the girls through the woods, she knows she can't just do nothing. Not like the rest of her town. But as she draws closer to answers, she realizes that the foundation of her seemingly normal town might be rotten at the center. And that if nobody else stands for the missing, she will"-- Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
Actuele discussiesFound: YA small town, people go missing and are quickly forgotten, protagonist remembers father in Name that Book Populaire omslagen
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