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A review by annettebooksofhopeanddreams
The Wicked Deep by Shea Ernshaw
5.0
I was really looking forward to this book. Not because it was hyped on bookstagram. Not because the entire world was talking about it. I was drawn to it from the moment I read the synopsis, from the moment I realized that there was a part of me that longed for this book.
And now I know why. I loved this book. I love it. I'll always love it. This story reads like a mixture of a fairytale and Maggie Stiefvater's the Scorpio Races. It doesn't take long to set the atmosphere and to give me this unfamiliar chill rolling down my backbone while I step out of the bed to go to the toilet before falling asleep. After 50 pages I'm already sold and when I wake up and continue reading it's almost impossible to stop.
Even though the world is only small, the atmosphere, the people, the place, it all feels alive, vivid and real. The characters are interesting, conflicted and complicated and somehow the entire book is enchanting and mesmerizing as if it's singing the same song it's trying to describe that lures innocent young boys into the water where their lives are ended.
From start to finish it was sinking it's claws in me and didn't want to let me go. And at the very end, tears were streaming down my face during the most epic and heartbreaking climax I've probably ever came across!
And now I know why. I loved this book. I love it. I'll always love it. This story reads like a mixture of a fairytale and Maggie Stiefvater's the Scorpio Races. It doesn't take long to set the atmosphere and to give me this unfamiliar chill rolling down my backbone while I step out of the bed to go to the toilet before falling asleep. After 50 pages I'm already sold and when I wake up and continue reading it's almost impossible to stop.
Even though the world is only small, the atmosphere, the people, the place, it all feels alive, vivid and real. The characters are interesting, conflicted and complicated and somehow the entire book is enchanting and mesmerizing as if it's singing the same song it's trying to describe that lures innocent young boys into the water where their lives are ended.
From start to finish it was sinking it's claws in me and didn't want to let me go. And at the very end, tears were streaming down my face during the most epic and heartbreaking climax I've probably ever came across!