Rhiannon
A fast paced psychological and trauma horror that I flew through. Sadie has a secret that she works desperately hard to keep from her meticulously managed life. She still harbours trauma from a brutal, bloody and terrifying event from when she was 12 yrs old and at camp that involved some deaths.
Now an adult, her OCD generally keeps her memories and nightmares in check, her mother estranged, and her former identity a secret... until she and her boyfriend are invited to a cabin-in-the-woods getaway with some friends. Sadie wants to run for the hills (figuratively, because seriously the last place she wants to be is in another forest!) Can she outrun that bloody, terrifying day from 17 years ago? Who else will pay the price? Is she just going crazy?
Sadie's character was heartbreaking and uncomfortably relatable; her peccadillos simultaneously easy to understand and frustrating. I was routing for her the whole time - from her childhood bullying trauma to her milquetoast adult-survival techniques - it all made sense and yet you really want this woman to Rise Up and have a serious and positive epiphanic moment.
And she is given that opportunity when the horror she thought she escaped appears to be stalking her once again...
My thanks to NetGalley and Creature Publishing for the ARC!
Originally posted at www.amazon.ca.
A fast paced psychological and trauma horror that I flew through. Sadie has a secret that she works desperately hard to keep from her meticulously managed life. She still harbours trauma from a brutal, bloody and terrifying event from when she was 12 yrs old and at camp that involved some deaths.
Now an adult, her OCD generally keeps her memories and nightmares in check, her mother estranged, and her former identity a secret... until she and her boyfriend are invited to a cabin-in-the-woods getaway with some friends. Sadie wants to run for the hills (figuratively, because seriously the last place she wants to be is in another forest!) Can she outrun that bloody, terrifying day from 17 years ago? Who else will pay the price? Is she just going crazy?
Sadie's character was heartbreaking and uncomfortably relatable; her peccadillos simultaneously easy to understand and frustrating. I was routing for her the whole time - from her childhood bullying trauma to her milquetoast adult-survival techniques - it all made sense and yet you really want this woman to Rise Up and have a serious and positive epiphanic moment.
And she is given that opportunity when the horror she thought she escaped appears to be stalking her once again...
My thanks to NetGalley and Creature Publishing for the ARC!
Originally posted at www.amazon.ca.