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And the Trees Crept In
by Dawn Kurtagich
This book was not what I expected at all.
I liked the book a lot at first. The overall creepiness of the story was what kept me going and wanting to read more.
Then the story started dragging a bit. Itz added to the creepiness factor but it also started to felt repetitive and even boring.
And then ending was sad. It made me sad even if the conclusion wasn't that bad. I definitely didn't see it coming.
This contains spoilers
I kinda hated Nori most of the time. I get that it was mostly Sillas fault (and Cath's) but it was hard to care for her.
Silla an Nori scaped her abusive father and went to live with their aunt Cath in a big Manor where her mom and sister grew up. They are isolated from the town by a big forest and Cath tells them they can't go to the forest because theres a creeper man that will come and take them. Then Cath goes crazy and goes to live in the attic.
But was it just a tale? Why can't Silla get over the feeling that the trees are getting closer and creeping in? And is that the creeper man she sees in the forest?
I have to say, I wanted to like Gowan but I kept thinking he was going to betray them, or be a product of their imagination. Nothing further that the truth.
Spoiler!!
It turns out they were all dead. They were in Silla's own hell, because she couldn't forgive herself for letting her mother die by her father's hands the night they ran away. In reality, the creeper man was a fictional thing her mother and aunt invented to justify the death of their younger sister, Anne. And when Silla and Nori went to live with her, she also met Gowan and they fell in love. But with talks of a ear coming, Gowan left to gather supplies and her aunt finally lost it and hang herself in the attic.
Nori got sick when she helped a stranger in the woods and drank from his water, and died a week later, and Silla left herself starve to death. When Gowan finally got there, they were all dead.
And so Silla got stuck in purgatory, in a hell of her own making, reliving the past few months of her life but changing the story so that the creeper man was real. And this went on for years, until Gowan died and could enter her hell and help her forgive herself.
It was sad, at the end, because it was all about anger and sadness and regret. Not the spooky story I was in the mood for.
Still, it's a nice story and I enjoyed the ride.
I liked the book a lot at first. The overall creepiness of the story was what kept me going and wanting to read more.
Then the story started dragging a bit. Itz added to the creepiness factor but it also started to felt repetitive and even boring.
And then ending was sad. It made me sad even if the conclusion wasn't that bad. I definitely didn't see it coming.
This contains spoilers
I kinda hated Nori most of the time. I get that it was mostly Sillas fault (and Cath's) but it was hard to care for her.
Silla an Nori scaped her abusive father and went to live with their aunt Cath in a big Manor where her mom and sister grew up. They are isolated from the town by a big forest and Cath tells them they can't go to the forest because theres a creeper man that will come and take them. Then Cath goes crazy and goes to live in the attic.
But was it just a tale? Why can't Silla get over the feeling that the trees are getting closer and creeping in? And is that the creeper man she sees in the forest?
I have to say, I wanted to like Gowan but I kept thinking he was going to betray them, or be a product of their imagination. Nothing further that the truth.
Spoiler!!
It turns out they were all dead. They were in Silla's own hell, because she couldn't forgive herself for letting her mother die by her father's hands the night they ran away. In reality, the creeper man was a fictional thing her mother and aunt invented to justify the death of their younger sister, Anne. And when Silla and Nori went to live with her, she also met Gowan and they fell in love. But with talks of a ear coming, Gowan left to gather supplies and her aunt finally lost it and hang herself in the attic.
Nori got sick when she helped a stranger in the woods and drank from his water, and died a week later, and Silla left herself starve to death. When Gowan finally got there, they were all dead.
And so Silla got stuck in purgatory, in a hell of her own making, reliving the past few months of her life but changing the story so that the creeper man was real. And this went on for years, until Gowan died and could enter her hell and help her forgive herself.
It was sad, at the end, because it was all about anger and sadness and regret. Not the spooky story I was in the mood for.
Still, it's a nice story and I enjoyed the ride.