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vewokie's review
5.0
Wow! What an insanely fantastic book!
I've always enjoyed Monique's writing and her previous work (Muti Nation) is still one of my favourites.
This is, however new for Monique and absolutely incredible.
The story is gripping, dark and a definite read at every open gap you can find! The chapters are a little longer than I'm used to and I admit, most of the time I was on the edge of my seat, excited to read what's next.
I love that Monique doesn't have this airy fairy prettiness to her writing. It's a thrilling kind of dark that really appeals to me.
I cannot fault this book and I'm disappointment not more people have had the pleasure of reading it. It's fantastic and you WON'T doubt it.
Waiting impatiently now for book 2!
I've always enjoyed Monique's writing and her previous work (Muti Nation) is still one of my favourites.
This is, however new for Monique and absolutely incredible.
The story is gripping, dark and a definite read at every open gap you can find! The chapters are a little longer than I'm used to and I admit, most of the time I was on the edge of my seat, excited to read what's next.
I love that Monique doesn't have this airy fairy prettiness to her writing. It's a thrilling kind of dark that really appeals to me.
I cannot fault this book and I'm disappointment not more people have had the pleasure of reading it. It's fantastic and you WON'T doubt it.
Waiting impatiently now for book 2!
friedatweehuysen's review
5.0
So powerful! This is a strong story with fabulous characters. Rachel is great.
hannibelle's review
2.0
This was a pretty meh adventure over all. The story seemed scattered and unorganized, as if it was cobbled together piece by piece without a coherent plan for the plot as a whole. There are a lot more characters than there really need to be, and I am not sure if there was romance anywhere in this book but I feel like there was supposed to be? It was weird. Interesting at times, I'll give it that, but never enough to be good. Side note: the book was published very strangely. The typeface seemed slightly blurred, and the pages felt and smelled awful. I don't know if that's true of every book or if I got a bad copy, but half the reading experience for me is the feel of the pages against my fingers and the scent of the ink, and this one just didn't do it for me. At all.
jwill0829's review
5.0
This book is a mixture of dark fantasy, horror, mystery and faeries in it.
I really enjoy this book...it started out with a mystery and scary parts to the stories and then it went into the fae realm which brought together on solving the mystery of how, why and what was taking the children. The plot is intriguing and the writing flows nicely. The characters were well developed and are easily connected to.
I really enjoy this book...it started out with a mystery and scary parts to the stories and then it went into the fae realm which brought together on solving the mystery of how, why and what was taking the children. The plot is intriguing and the writing flows nicely. The characters were well developed and are easily connected to.
pavi_fictionalworm's review
4.0
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Disclaimer: An eARC was provided via Good Choice Reading and the Author as part of the Blog Tour. The Thoughts, opinions & feelings expressed in the review are therefore, my own.
I picked up The Night Weaver on a late night when I couldn’t sleep and the cover on my kindle caught my eye – turns out after completing the book, I couldn’t sleep for the next few days as well :D
Kids in Shadow Grove are going missing – being lead away into the forest; but there is absolutely no panic in the town, no search parties, no posters, no frantic parents cam[ped out outside the police station, nada nothing at all.
The only people who seem to be worried are the kids who haven’t been taken yet.
Shadow Grove is a town with a past filled with horrors – horrors like devastating fires, mass poisoning are somehow never recalled by the town members at all, nary a mention never a thought.
Our protagonist’s family, The Clearys and The Crenshaws, their neighbours have a long standing commitment to protect the perimeter of the forest at the edge of the town of Shadow Grove, trying to maintain peace with the magical beings residing in the forest; but more like trying the keep the mischievous magical beings within the forest itself.
For generations it has worked, but somehow, somewhere, something wayward has slipped past its defences and is now trying to wreck havoc in the town or so our protagonist, Rachel Cleary suspects. Teamed with an unlikely group of humans and fae prince; Rachel discovers the existence of something far horrifying known as the Night Weaver – a bogeyman who preys on the very strong emotions of anguish, fright and pain.
It is now up to Rachel to save the town and for that she needs to shed the persona of believing that the town she is protecting is anything but normal – she has her readers with her, every step of the way.
The Night weaver is a dark fantasy standalone, bordering on horror – the author has done a fan – freaking – tastic job of weaving an imaginative story in simple words that grips the reader right from the start, and does a brilliant job of actually kick starting the imaginatio0n of a reader, enough to scare the bajeesus out of them.
The Night Weaver is the perfect pick for the spooky season of October and one that should be on your list of spook-tastic reads for the month of Halloween!
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