A review by the_booookaholic
Don't Let the Forest In by C.G. Drews

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

I wanted to like this book a lot more than I did. Having an
ace main character
is very interesting to me, and I wanted to see how it was handled (it wasn't. at least not very well). I didn't really like how anything in this book was handled. I think this book would be good for anyone looking for heavy teenage angst, but that is just not for me. The horror aspects were interesting, and I really liked the descriptions. The writing felt very beautiful and poetic. However, I can't rate this any higher because the rest of it was so far from what I wanted and the ending
just made me confused and unsatisfied that nothing was actually explained and it's left very open-ended
. Overall, the line writing was great, but the themes of heavy teenage angst were very much not for me.
Expand filter menu Content Warnings