The Twisted Ones
Winner of the RUSA Award for Best Horror When a young woman clears out her deceased grandmother's home in rural North Carolina, she finds long-hidden secrets about a strange colony of beings in the woods in this chilling novel that reads like The Blair Witch Project meets The Andy Griffith Show. When Mouse's dad asks her to clean out her dead grandmother's house, she says yes. After all, how bad could it be? Answer: pretty bad. Grandma was a hoarder, and her house is stuffed with useless rubbish. That would be horrific enough, but there's more--Mouse stumbles across her step-grandfather's journal, which at first seems to be filled with nonsensical rants...until Mouse encounters some of the terrifying things he described for herself. Alone in the woods with her dog, Mouse finds herself face to face with a series of impossible terrors--because sometimes the things that go bump in the night are real, and they're looking for you. And if she doesn't face them head on, she might not survive to tell the tale. From Hugo Award-winning author Ursula Vernon, writing as T. Kingfisher, The Twisted Ones is a gripping, terrifying tale bound to keep you up all night--from both fear and anticipation of what happens next.
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Looove this book! I had a feeling I would from the blurb. Glad I stumbled onto this author (and her other name)! If you get the chance listen to this book on audible. Idk if the narrator changes if you are on a a different app or not but the audible one was awesome! And I totally felt like I related to the main character... pretty sure she has adhd just like me. And I LOOOOOVE the way she talks about or explains the dog! Over all I'm gonna be recommending this to everyone!
Our club was intrigued by the Appalachian theme & were constantly on edge. Plot was good but could have been more descriptive.
I usually enjoy T. Kingfisher's lighthearted horror but something about this one just missed the mark.
The premise sounded so interesting, a woman going to clear out her mean grandmaās hoarded out house in the middle of the woods all alone with no one but a dog? Sounded great!
Unfortunately, it was not great. The main character feels like a self insert by the author and I found her to be boring, dull, and dumb. I listened to the audiobook for this one and the narrator read everything with this snarky, sarcastic, smart ass tone that made listening to this book a true test of my patience.
Our dull main character, Mouse, meets her neighbor who is named Foxyā¦..and together they start to investigate the weird occurrences in the woods.
This story did not make a lot of sense to me and was very boring. I had to listen at 2x speed just to finish this one I honestly canāt think of one thing I enjoyed. This is not a good book, but is it the worst thing over ever read? No. Iām so glad this isnāt the first book by Kingfisher I read, and I recommend checking out her other books and skipping this one.
Once Foxy made an entrance the book went totally south. Giving it two stars because the beginning was really good. However, the last 150 pages and ābig revealā was a hot mess. The more Foxy said āhonā the more angry I becameā¦ Like, let my imagination do SOMETHING. I donāt need to read trashy humor and the word āhonā to understand who Foxy isā¦. Gooooood grief.
Their reaction to being held hostage by a demonic, devil, magic cult was so insanely unrealistic that you lost me completely.
This was going somewhere good and the author got lazy.
La- deee-daaaaa
Their reaction to being held hostage by a demonic, devil, magic cult was so insanely unrealistic that you lost me completely.
This was going somewhere good and the author got lazy.
La- deee-daaaaa
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