A review by ellethefantasyqueen
The Staircase in the Woods by Chuck Wendig

3.0

Thank you to netgalley for providing me an e-arc in exchange for an honest review. I do tend to enjoy this type of horror, I enjoy the changing rooms, alternative reality type of situations that can come of it. However, I feel this story fell a little flat. I did "enjoy" (if you can call it that) reading about the different rooms, and some of the descriptions were gory. But I didn't have that sense of dread and tension that I personally want from a horror. It was a good book, and entertaining enough but left something to be desired from me. Part of this is due to the flashbacks to different events, I understand that was important to help create the backstory for the characters but also pulled you out of any tension that was building. I would try this author again though!