I think that worked really well, but Lauren and David were absolutely my favourites. It gave an interesting and fleshed out view of what was happening, which made the plot so much clearer than it would have been from Lauren’s limited perspective. She wasn’t our only POV, there were chapters from several different characters including: Alex, a cop who hasn’t been in town very long Lauren’s mother Miranda the mayor and other supporting characters. I was watching things unfold slowly and with only a little extreme fear that something horrible was going to happen to Lauren, our wonderful fourteen year old protagonist who has a penchant for wandering into the woods to try and solve gory murders. This was far more thriller-horror than it was scary-horror, which I really enjoyed. There was something kind of thriller-like about this book, and I really enjoyed the way that I knew more than the characters did and could piece things together from each POV. This one started a little slower than other Christina Henry books I’ve read, but there was a particular chapter that took it from zero to 100 and after that I was hooked.

And that if nobody else stands for the missing, she will. But as she draws closer to answers, she realizes that the foundation of her seemingly normal town might be rotten at the center. So when Lauren has a vision of a monster dragging the remains of the girls through the woods, she knows she can’t just do nothing. Even her best friend, Miranda, has become more interested in boys than in spending time at the old ghost tree, the way they used to when they were kids. After all, the year before her father’s body was found with his heart missing, and since then everyone has moved on. When the bodies of two girls are found torn apart in the town of Smiths Hollow, Lauren is surprised, but she also expects that the police won’t find the killer. off-page sex between a minor and an adult presented as consensual), 18 year old dating a 14 year old presented as consensual, fatphobia, slutshaming. Trigger Warnings: racism, slurs, murder, gore, violence, underage sex (incl. Thanks to Titan Books for the eARC of this book, it has not affected my honest review. This was a little different from the others, not a retelling but its own creepy story of witches, woods and murders, and I loved it. But when I got the opportunity to read an eARC, I leapt at it. There’s so much blood.”Īs a self-confessed Christina Henry addict, I obviously ordered this one straight away.

The Ghost Tree by Christina Henry