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A review by mehsi
Hannah-Beast by Jennifer McMahon
4.0
A spooky tale about bullying, Halloween, and fire.
Back in 2018 I read Oak Avenue and The Sleep Tight Motel, totally forgot about this series until this year when I was preparing for my Spooktober and decided to check out Hannah-Beast!
It wasn’t always the easiest of books to read because of the bullying + what happened to Hannah, but it was a good book to read with plenty of spooks and plenty of OH NO-moments.
In this book we follow Amanda in the now as she waves bye to her daughter who is about to trick or treat and we see how she struggles each year with the kids in the Hannah-Beast costumes. As the story continues we find out what has happened and my heart broke for Amanda, but I also wanted to kick her for not being kinder when someone needed it. Peer pressure and all that ahoy. How do we find out what has happened? Well, we also get the Then with Hannah in spotlight. Hannah a girl who wanted to have friends and be happy, but instead was horribly manipulated and bullied by people at school, the main group being three girls, including Amanda. We see what horrible events led to what we saw in the now. It wasn’t easy to read, but I did love that we switched back and forth between now and then and got more and more to see on the situation.
I have to say I felt for Hannah and was hoping that she would just say fuck no to the girls, but at the same time didn’t like her for a lot of the parts. I get peer pressure, I get that she was excited, but she just went way too far with things. Shouting and screaming at people? Being rude? And then also breaking and entering without any second thoughts? I mean, again, peer pressure, but she just didn’t seem to have any bit of remorse about things and that just stood out to me.
The ending was a shock! I had expected A LOT of things but not that! But it did leave me with questions and a lot of sadness.
All in all, this was a good novella and definitely a good one for Halloween. I should see if I can get the other books in the Dark Corners series~
Review first posted at https://twirlingbookprincess.com/
Back in 2018 I read Oak Avenue and The Sleep Tight Motel, totally forgot about this series until this year when I was preparing for my Spooktober and decided to check out Hannah-Beast!
It wasn’t always the easiest of books to read because of the bullying + what happened to Hannah, but it was a good book to read with plenty of spooks and plenty of OH NO-moments.
In this book we follow Amanda in the now as she waves bye to her daughter who is about to trick or treat and we see how she struggles each year with the kids in the Hannah-Beast costumes. As the story continues we find out what has happened and my heart broke for Amanda, but I also wanted to kick her for not being kinder when someone needed it. Peer pressure and all that ahoy. How do we find out what has happened? Well, we also get the Then with Hannah in spotlight. Hannah a girl who wanted to have friends and be happy, but instead was horribly manipulated and bullied by people at school, the main group being three girls, including Amanda. We see what horrible events led to what we saw in the now. It wasn’t easy to read, but I did love that we switched back and forth between now and then and got more and more to see on the situation.
I have to say I felt for Hannah and was hoping that she would just say fuck no to the girls, but at the same time didn’t like her for a lot of the parts. I get peer pressure, I get that she was excited, but she just went way too far with things. Shouting and screaming at people? Being rude? And then also breaking and entering without any second thoughts? I mean, again, peer pressure, but she just didn’t seem to have any bit of remorse about things and that just stood out to me.
The ending was a shock! I had expected A LOT of things but not that! But it did leave me with questions and a lot of sadness.
All in all, this was a good novella and definitely a good one for Halloween. I should see if I can get the other books in the Dark Corners series~
Review first posted at https://twirlingbookprincess.com/