The Forest

The Forest by Lisa Quigley is a great new horror novel examining sacrifice, motherhood, and safety. Edgewood is a special town where nothing bad ever seems to happen. But when things start to go wrong, Faye discovers that safety may have a price. Quigley has written a novel reminiscent of Jackson's The Lottery and Tyron's Harvest Home, but focused in a powerful new direction and told through the lens of a young mother. The characters and quandaries proposed by the novel were highly compelling and heart-wrenching. The structure of alternating timelines (a trope I often find exhausting) was employed to great effect in this novel as each chapter seemed to spur me on to read the next. For all I loved about this book I did find my suspension of disbelief strained at times. Additionally I noticed a fair number of typos throughout the book. For these reasons I'm inclined to rate this book ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️