Published by Canelo Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, suspense
Format: ARC, eBook
“If you find your way here, you’re already lost.”
Withered Hill is an oddly compelling folk horror book that kept me questioning what I was reading at times yet kept me engaged and turning the pages. There were moments in the beginning of the book where I wondered if this book was going be like the movies Midsommar and/or The Wicker Man due to Withered Hill and how Sophie stumbled into it naked and covered in dirt.
This is a different read and is told through a dual timeline. Readers are taken back and forth in time from before (Outside) Withered Hill to the various lengths of time that Sophie is in Withered Hill. This was an atmospheric, gripping, odd, unsettling, and unique read. It played out like a movie in my mind. It is also thought provoking and a great book for the fall/Halloween season.
Creepy, atmospheric, eerie and compelling. Fans of folk horror will certainly this enjoy Withered Hill.
Thank you to Canelo 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.
