Hey guys! I know I haven’t been very timely with updates but I’ll try to get two more reviews out this week other than this one. My reading has been slowing down a lot because what is time anymore?
Goodreads Synopsis:
Be careful of the dark, dark wood…
Especially the woods surrounding the town of Fir Haven. Some say these woods are magical. Haunted, even.
Rumored to be a witch, only Nora Walker knows the truth. She and the Walker women before her have always shared a special connection with the woods. And it’s this special connection that leads Nora to Oliver Huntsman—the same boy who disappeared from the Camp for Wayward Boys weeks ago—and in the middle of the worst snowstorm in years. He should be dead, but here he is alive, and left in the woods with no memory of the time he’d been missing.
But Nora can feel an uneasy shift in the woods at Oliver’s presence. And it’s not too long after that Nora realizes she has no choice but to unearth the truth behind how the boy she has come to care so deeply about survived his time in the forest, and what led him there in the first place. What Nora doesn’t know, though, is that Oliver has secrets of his own—secrets he’ll do anything to keep buried, because as it turns out, he wasn’t the only one to have gone missing on that fateful night all those weeks ago.
For as long as there have been fairy tales, we have been warned to fear what lies within the dark, dark woods and in Winterwood, New York Times bestselling author Shea Ernshaw, shows us why.
From New York Times bestselling author of The Wicked Deep comes a haunting romance perfect for fans of Practical Magic,where dark fairy tales and enchanted folklore collide after a boy, believed to be missing, emerges from the magical woods—and falls in love with the witch determined to unravel his secrets.
My Review:
I don’t totally know how I feel about this book. I definitely like The Wicked Deep (by the same author, different world) much better, but I don’t know what I found wrong here. Overall, I didn’t really like how everything unfolded. It was just really confusing and it just felt like it was meant to mystify the reader, more to confuse than make them think. However, it was an interesting read, and definitely got entertaining when the pieces all fell together. I did actually like this book, but a friend of mine really didn’t and mentions that a lot, so my opinion is semi-tainted.
I would recommend this book to people who like urban fantasy. It does take place in the modern world, but there is very little modern technology mentioned. This reads like a high fantasy, so I would recommend this to the people who like those two. I did like that there were some supporting characters, but not enough to make it truly confusing.
Overall, I would give this book…
⭐️⭐️⭐️/⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.
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