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The Creeping
by Alexandra Sirowy
Jeanie went to heaven eleven years ago, and tonight they spit her back to earth.
This is the kind of book you should not read at night. (I did, and then I was too scared to go into the kitchen for a glass of water.)
[b: The Creeping|23309610|The Creeping|Alexandra Sirowy|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1439787121s/23309610.jpg|25878877] tells the story of seventeen years old Stella, who went into the woods with her friend Jeanie when they were seven and was the only one who made it out alive. She has no memory of what happened to them that day, until a new body appears at the quaint little town and she begins to have flashes of scenes that could, perhaps, solve the mystery once and for all.
This book is very well-written. It manages to engulf the reader and really immerse them in the mystery — [a: Alexandra Sirowy|7222174|Alexandra Sirowy|https://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1395250529p2/7222174.jpg] created a fantastic dark, mysterious atmosphere. I think the biggest challenge for an author writing a mystery/thriller book is that they have to really captivate the reader, and manage to tell the story in a compelling way that makes us want to not put this book down for a second, and Sirowy expertly does that.
The characters felt very real to me, Stella and her best friend Zoey especially — and the way their friendship was portrayed was so realistic as to what a friendship between teenage girls can be like: they were completely devoted to each other, and even though they didn't always approve of each other's actions, they still stood together, defending one another, in the way that only a best friend can do for you. Sirowy didn't bother with writing a nice, sympathetic heroine; she wrote a popular teenage girl, who did shitty things even though she knew they were shitty because sometimes teenagers are stupid and don't really think about what their actions might cause in others. I can see why she wouldn't be everyone's cup of tea, but to me, that only added an edge to her personality. If she were written as a nice, goody two-shoes type of girl, I definitely wouldn't have been half as interested in this as I was.
The only downside of this for me was the romance (I'm gonna try to keep this vague because it might be a spoiler): I liked both of the characters individually, but the moment they were paired together they started to be a little bland. Stella had this great voice, but suddenly she turned into a ditzy, childish girl when thinking about her love interest and it was really annoying. I basically rolled my eyes every time they were together and she kept going on and on about the butterflies in her stomach.