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A review by bookishwelshie
Don't Let the Forest In by C.G. Drews
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
4.5
Creepy. Weird. Eerie. Hauntingly beautiful. Don’t Let The Forest In had me gripped right from the start with its wonderfully-written prose. The cover art is absolutely a visual representation of what’s to expect inside. It leaves you feeling grief-stricken and bereft, rare is it for a horror novel to tap into the reader’s emotions this deeply, and in this way.
It’s filled with teenage angst, and queer longing by the main character who is trying to repress his sexuality because he wants to maintain being a wallflower.
My only (very slight) critique is that it does take some time to get into the main, horror, plot; but once it does, it’s filled with gorgeously creepy illustrations and dark poetry.
Wow. There is such a heartbreaking twist and then that emotive ending. I feel like re-reading this knowing what I know now would push me to rating it the full 5 stars potentially.
Also, I can’t be the only person who fan-cast Troye Sivan as Andrew, right? As soon as it said that he was Australian. 😅
Things haven’t been the same for twins, Andrew and Dove, with their friend, Thomas, since an argument at the end of the previous year. This is about Andrew’s determination to make things right between them all, yet he is trying to conceal his romantic feelings towards Thomas. Andrew has a love for dark fairy tales, he writes them, and Thomas draws dark artwork to accompany them. They help each other through the darkness inside their own minds.
”To write something nice, he’d need something nice to say. But his ribs were a cage for monsters, and they cut their teeth on his bones.”
4.5 Stars 🖤
It’s filled with teenage angst, and queer longing by the main character who is trying to repress his sexuality because he wants to maintain being a wallflower.
My only (very slight) critique is that it does take some time to get into the main, horror, plot; but once it does, it’s filled with gorgeously creepy illustrations and dark poetry.
Wow. There is such a heartbreaking twist and then that emotive ending. I feel like re-reading this knowing what I know now would push me to rating it the full 5 stars potentially.
Also, I can’t be the only person who fan-cast Troye Sivan as Andrew, right? As soon as it said that he was Australian. 😅
Things haven’t been the same for twins, Andrew and Dove, with their friend, Thomas, since an argument at the end of the previous year. This is about Andrew’s determination to make things right between them all, yet he is trying to conceal his romantic feelings towards Thomas. Andrew has a love for dark fairy tales, he writes them, and Thomas draws dark artwork to accompany them. They help each other through the darkness inside their own minds.
”To write something nice, he’d need something nice to say. But his ribs were a cage for monsters, and they cut their teeth on his bones.”
4.5 Stars 🖤