Published by Minotaur Books Genres: Horror, Mystery, thriller
Format: ARC, eBook
Alice Lindstedt, a documentary filmmaker has been obsessed with the missing/vanished residents of the town dubbed “The Lost Village” since childhood. Her grandmother’s entire family disappeared and what remained was a dead woman tied to a tree and an infant found crying in a building.
With curiosity on hand, Alice has gather a team to help her go and film a documentary about “the lost village” and to perhaps uncover what made a whole town disappear and leave behind a dead woman and a newborn.
What they find is abandoned homes, and that tingling feeling that something was not quite right. A sense that they were being watched. That they were not alone. Was someone watching them? Was the abandoned town getting to them? Was the unease they were feeling real or imagined?
This had so much potential for me. The synopsis piqued my curiosity. This book sounded like it would be right up my alley. I love a good creepy, tension filled, tale. For the most part, this feel flat for me. The entire book I felt as if something was missing, but what? Things did pick up towards the end. There was more action and an underlying feeling of dread and the anticipation of a big reveal. When the ending did come, I had some answers but wanted this to be scarier.
Overall, good not great for me. Others are enjoying this more than I did so give their reviews a read.
Thank you to St. Martin’s Press – Minotaur Books and NetGalley who provided me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. All the thoughts and opinions are my own.