"It was just supposed to be a simple walk after dinner for Jennifer Hanning's parents, but now her father is missing and her traumatized mother refuses to talk about what happened to him on that night. To make matters worse, Jen is having strange dreams in which a voice is summoning her into the very forest where her father disappeared. Indeed, there is someone looking for Jen - or something. Join Jen on her journey as she discovers the mystic being calling her name, the danger her father, John, is in, and it's ultimately up to her to rescue him. Leaving her old life behind, Jen encounters both majestic and terrifying creatures, and quickly becomes embroiled in a war that has been waged against Mankind since the very day of their conception" --
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DNF - PG 14
This book makes no sense. I know, I know, I didn't read enough, but... stylistically, the word choices don't work for me. They don't make much sense to me when you get paragraphs like this.
‘Miss Pine triumphantly marched Jen into the main office ....... As she (the secretary) typed another monotonous daily report.'
Also, you have a teacher that's being encouraging to Jen and then five pages later, she's saying she can't get through to her. And then there's the sheriff who was reluctant to ‘investigate' two adults that have been ‘missing' for about two hours. Then he shows up a posse (basically, I think it said ‘townspeople') and their hound dogs...
I don't even know what is this.
Let's also not forget that the longest chapter is ten pages - and at least two chapters are one single page. Not even a full page.
(To be fair, this isn't a book I would have ever chosen for myself, but it was a gift and I had it for about ten months before giving it a shot. Honestly, I probably didn't have a chance of liking it, but...well, I gave it a shot and the writing style was a turn-off.)
