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Black River Orchard
by Chuck Wendig
My brain will never unsee what it read in this book. It is horrific, intense, graphic, gory. Set in a small town with an apple orchard, this is a perfect fall read. I think it absolutely delivered on the premise, but it was a bit long and overall just wasn’t really the story for me. To be clear, this is not a knock on the story itself…because other reviewers are raving over this book. I recognize that this book is extremely well done, I personally just didn’t love it.
This was one of my most anticipated reads of the year because The Book of Accidents was my favorite book of 2021. I think that book had an impact on me in a way that this did not, in a large part because BOA wove its scary and suspenseful elements with themes of family, friendship, trauma, pain and empathy, ghosts and demons. Black River Orchard certainly touches upon family and friendship, but I think the more predominant themes are the corruption of power and selfishness. And even these themes took a backseat to the plot itself.
Chuck Wendig remains, without a doubt an auto-read author for me! Can’t wait to see what he writes next, it’s guaranteed to be a wild ride!
Black River Orchard will be out 9/26. Thank you so much to Random House Publishing Group - Ballantine and NetGalley for the ARC.
Now off I go to buy apples for Rosh Hashanah this weekend…
This was one of my most anticipated reads of the year because The Book of Accidents was my favorite book of 2021. I think that book had an impact on me in a way that this did not, in a large part because BOA wove its scary and suspenseful elements with themes of family, friendship, trauma, pain and empathy, ghosts and demons. Black River Orchard certainly touches upon family and friendship, but I think the more predominant themes are the corruption of power and selfishness. And even these themes took a backseat to the plot itself.
Chuck Wendig remains, without a doubt an auto-read author for me! Can’t wait to see what he writes next, it’s guaranteed to be a wild ride!
Black River Orchard will be out 9/26. Thank you so much to Random House Publishing Group - Ballantine and NetGalley for the ARC.
Now off I go to buy apples for Rosh Hashanah this weekend…