The characters have a great sense of humor and the narrator is perfect at delivering the lines. The descriptions we do get are pretty great and messed up! I wish there had been more of that. Sometimes it felt like the descriptions of them were a little too vague. I absolutely loved all the bizarre twisted ones. This is such a strange one! Strange in the best way though. After lots of research and finding out the dog doesn’t die, I decided to go ahead and give it a go. It sounded so interesting but I was worried it might have animal death in it. The Twisted Ones has been on my radar since it came out in 2019. I want to state something important right up front- THE DOG DOES NOT DIE! 🙂 Ok, now to the review… Published by Simon & Schuster, October 2019. 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. And if she doesn’t face them head on, she might not survive to tell the tale.įrom Hugo Award–winning author Ursula Vernon, writing as T.

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.Īlone 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. Grandma was a hoarder, and her house is stuffed with useless rubbish. After all, how bad could it be?Īnswer: pretty bad. When Mouse’s dad asks her to clean out her dead grandmother’s house, she says yes. 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.

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