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The Winter People: A Suspense Thriller
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER - The New York Times bestselling author of The Invited will shock you with a simmering psychological thriller about ghostly secrets, dark choices, and the unbreakable bond between mothers and daughters. - "One of the year's most chilling novels." --The Miami HeraldWest Hall, Vermont, has always been a town of strange disappearances and old legends. The most mysterious is that of Sara Harrison Shea, who, in 1908, was found dead in the field behind her house just months after the tragic death of her daughter. Now, in present day, nineteen-year-old Ruthie lives in Sara's farmhouse with her mother, Alice, and her younger sister. Alice has always insisted that they live off the grid, a decision that has weighty consequences when Ruthie wakes up one morning to find that Alice has vanished. In her search for clues, she is startled to find a copy of Sara Harrison Shea's diary hidden beneath the floorboards of her mother's bedroom. As Ruthie gets sucked into the historical mystery, she discovers that she's not the only person looking for someone that they've lost. But she may be the only one who can stop history from repeating itself.
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The book ramped up the pace and action rather nicely.... and then didn't quite stick the landing. The "well we've inherited a monster" moral isn't terribly satisfying and neither really was all the running around in the cave system where the only encounter with the monster was off screen. Ultimately great premise, in spite of being done before, but a flat ending.
Took me awhile to get how everyone was connected in the book. By the end, it all made sense. I’ve been struggling with reading lately and this one definitely got me going again!
😩😩unpopular opinion here I know but I went into this book under the impression that it was a horror book. Everyone I talked to or any review I read was always going on about how amazing the book is. I don't think is bad but I also didnt feel it was amazing. The story was going back in time between the past and present. It changed between Sarah, Ruth and Katherine. I didn't understood what part Katherine played till the end. The story was dull ...read more
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