Lost Village

I wasn't sure how I would rate this book for a while. At times, it felt like it was dragging a bit, and I couldn't stand the main character, so I was thinking maybe 3 stars. But I was reading it at 4 AM and my heart was pounding because the atmosphere was just so well described, and I thought - okay, maybe it's more than 3 stars. 3.5 stars? idk.

I picked this book up because it made me think of the podcast Limetown, which I adore. From the beginn...read more

Definitely a thriller. In two time periods but the same location. A young woman brings a filming crew to a deserted Swedish village, to make essentially a fundraising film so that she can investigate the strange happening there in 1959. Her grandmother’s family and the rest of the village just vanished one day and nobody knows what happened to them. We hear about things Now and Then. Things get very tense by the end. Maybe more of a thriller than...read more

I got The Lost Village by Camilla Sten from Ink Drinkers Anonymous in Muncie, IN via their blind date with a book subscription. Since I like horror, they sent me this as my first blind date.

All 900 residents of Silvertjӓrn have disappeared except for a newborn baby, wailing in the school, and the body of a woman tied to a pole, stoned to death. Alice’s grandma is from that village and her mom, dad, and sister disappeared. All that are left are ...read more

The Lost Village was an easy read with great atmosphere. I found the main character unlikeable and felt like many of the characters changed personality according to what the author needed for the plot, but I still enjoyed the mystery. Trigger warning for abuse of a disabled character, which I found difficult to handle, but was pivotal to the plot. This isn't a spoiler because it's mentioned quite early in the book.

This book is a page-turner and left me wanting to know more, which was the only fault to the book, too many questions that were left up to the reader to guess. I enjoyed the read and would recommend this to other friends to see what they though.