A review by ellie742
A Door in the Dark by Scott Reintgen

4.0

I was genuinely surprised of how good this book was. Right from the start my expectations were low considering that I had never heard of the book at all and the cashier at the store that I went to suggested it to me. But a quarter way through I was hooked. Just the fact that a bunch of teenagers were stranded in the middle of a dangerous forest had some sort of pull. In the start of the book I could tell that there was something wrong with Ren. I think that she just saw people as objects that she could use to get height in power. I saw it even more when she was in the woods. She treated all of those people like the only reason that she needed them was for her to survive. By the end of the book when four out of the five students were dead and we are shown why they were sent to the forest in the first place I was completely dumbfound. I simply cannot believe that someone would go that far just to get revenge and power. I loved this book. The suspense was superb. I loved how the author just said the words straight out. Like when they saw that they were on the other side of the mountain and said “we’re on the wrong side”. There was just something about reading those words that made me want to read the rest as quickly as I could so that I knew what would happen next. The only thing that I didn’t like was that Theo and Ren didn’t really have a love story. I started reading this book thinking that it would be an enemies to lovers but it kind of gave off more unrequited love. But you can’t have it all.