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3.29 AVERAGE
3.29 AVERAGE
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
A group of woman go to explore an old skirmish site from the English civil war. Bad stuff happens.
The Dark Between The Trees by Fiona Barnett is a forest horror story that follows two very different groups venturing into a foreboding wood in search of very different things…one academic study and the other simple survivial.
The story has a parallel narrative similar to the lost apothecary and other modern:historical stories with one group being the academics and the other being a group of English soldiers from nearly four hundred years ago.
Along the way, you the reader will hear stories of Forest demons, the witch of Moresby Wood, and a mysterious creature called the Corrigal…but don’t expect all of your questions to have answers.
Recommended for those interested in forest horror or exploration horror stories like Evil Dead, Predator, Annihilation, and various gothic wilderness stories of authors like Blackwood, Lovecraft, and Derleth.
The Dark Between The Trees by Fiona Barnett is a forest horror story that follows two very different groups venturing into a foreboding wood in search of very different things…one academic study and the other simple survivial.
The story has a parallel narrative similar to the lost apothecary and other modern:historical stories with one group being the academics and the other being a group of English soldiers from nearly four hundred years ago.
Along the way, you the reader will hear stories of Forest demons, the witch of Moresby Wood, and a mysterious creature called the Corrigal…but don’t expect all of your questions to have answers.
Recommended for those interested in forest horror or exploration horror stories like Evil Dead, Predator, Annihilation, and various gothic wilderness stories of authors like Blackwood, Lovecraft, and Derleth.
I found this book really tiring. overlong, predictable plot that never gets inverted or turned on its head in a significant way, when you really hope it will. disappointing, because historical horror goes hard as hell: i hesitate to even classify this as horror, truly
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
1.5 I’m so relieved that’s over!
This is such a boring book and I’m really disappointed in it. Maybe it’s because I have zero interest in English history, the military, or academia?
The characters are all whiny, self-important, interchangeable non-entities. No one has a backstory or compelling characterization. The only emotion any of them evoke is annoyance.
The writing is so poor. Most of the book is tedious streams of consciousness or bickering dialogue. The same “lore” is repeated over and over again. Any semblance of story was bogged down in way too many descriptions of mundane things and repetition. The pacing was absolutely glacial.
It wasn’t spooky. While we were subjected to heaps of description of tedious self-important academic whining, or god-bothering nonsense, the Corrigal wasn’t even remotely scary nor was there any sense of atmosphere or eeriness.
The ending was absurd and such a let down. It has been eluded to so many times throughout the book that it fell totally flat.
The cover art is amazing but the book is a poorly written, anti-climatic slog.
This is such a boring book and I’m really disappointed in it. Maybe it’s because I have zero interest in English history, the military, or academia?
The characters are all whiny, self-important, interchangeable non-entities. No one has a backstory or compelling characterization. The only emotion any of them evoke is annoyance.
The writing is so poor. Most of the book is tedious streams of consciousness or bickering dialogue. The same “lore” is repeated over and over again. Any semblance of story was bogged down in way too many descriptions of mundane things and repetition. The pacing was absolutely glacial.
It wasn’t spooky. While we were subjected to heaps of description of tedious self-important academic whining, or god-bothering nonsense, the Corrigal wasn’t even remotely scary nor was there any sense of atmosphere or eeriness.
The ending was absurd and such a let down. It has been eluded to so many times throughout the book that it fell totally flat.
The cover art is amazing but the book is a poorly written, anti-climatic slog.
dark
emotional
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
A really folk horror, catching premise - but sadly not executed well. The story was repetitive and the elements of horror were almost overlooked.
adventurous
challenging
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
General concept is not bad. Two different timelines of a haunted or cursed forest. The book is 300 pages and the 1st 200 pages are the different groups wandering the forest with very little actually happening other than getting lost. The end of the story is not terrible although left in the air a little. Just disappointed about the overall arc of this story.
adventurous
challenging
dark
mysterious
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
The dual timelines and multiple POVs kept the story moving forward and made it hard for me to put the book down. As a fan of gothic horror, I’ve read several books recently with a much slower pace, so this story didn’t feel slow to me at all.
The atmosphere was eerie and it was just what I hope to find in books within this genre. Honestly, the venture through a creepy wood setting is one of my favorite tropes.
I would have liked a bit more from the ending, but I did like it. Looking forward to more from this author in the future.
The atmosphere was eerie and it was just what I hope to find in books within this genre. Honestly, the venture through a creepy wood setting is one of my favorite tropes.
I would have liked a bit more from the ending, but I did like it. Looking forward to more from this author in the future.
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
medium-paced