Thank you to Newsouth for this book in exchange for an honest review
Synopsis:
Clare remembers the cold. She remembers abandoned cars and children’s toys littered across the road. She remembers dark shapes in the snow and a terror she can’t explain. And then…nothing.
When she wakes, aching and afraid in a stranger’s gothic home, he tells her she was in an accident. He claims he saved her. Clare wants to leave, but a vicious snowstorm has blanketed the world in white, trapping them together, and there’s nothing she can do but wait.
At least the stranger seems kind…but Clare doesn’t know if she can trust him. He promised they were alone here, but she sees and hears things that convince her something else is creeping about the surrounding woods, watching. Waiting. Between the claustrophobic storm and the inescapable sense of being hunted, Clare is on edge…and increasingly certain of one thing:
Her car crash wasn’t an accident. Something is waiting for her to step outside the fragile safety of the house… something monstrous, something unfeeling.
Something desperately hungry
Review:
Voices in the Snow gave me real King Misery vibes and I am here for it!!
We start off meeting Clare who is wanting to relax with a good book and unwind but suddenly all the cities in the world go quiet. No one is contactable. Anyone that goes in, doesn’t come out. The cities are a ghost town. Clare panics and decides to bunker down with her sister and aunt but she never makes it there. On her way, Clare has a car crash and wakes up in a stranger’s home, where she is being looked after by a guy called Dorran.
Clare finds herself a little reliant on Dorran as she struggles to remember anything before the crash. She can’t remember her family or the current word situation, she is reliant on Dorran until her memories return.
The overall feel of this book is stunning, the eeriness of the book amplifies with the winter and snow that surrounds them. It almost gives you this surreal feeling that you are actually trapped there and this is the horror that you are going through yourself, so you find yourself really relating with Clare.
What I also liked was how the story played out, coming from someone who usually guesses the ending every single time, the ending was brilliant. It wasn’t one of my main thoughts of how the story would end but it was something that I briefly thought about but didn’t think it would actually happen. So it was refreshing not to know exactly what was going to happen.
I loved this creepy horror and sinister aspects of this book. We need more books like this!!!
Rating: 4.5/5
Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press
ISBN: 9781728220185
Sounds interesting. Will add to my TBR pile. Thanks!