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A review by booksenvogue
Pitch Green by The Brothers Washburn
4.0
Bad things lurk in the dark. Alone? Be afraid! Be very afraid. People go missing all the time; and in a small town in the Mojave desert, children go missing EVERY year. Eighteen year Camelot Mist Smith was eleven when her six year old neighbor, Hughie, went missing on Halloween. Seven years later, while Cam can never ignore the past, Hughie's older brother, California Gold Jones just wants to forget about the void in his home and focus on his promising jock future. Cam and Cal are still friends, closer yet since the abduction. When a FBI agent comes to town, Cal and Cam become unofficial interns apart of the investigation realizing that the disappearances are far sinister with deeper implications pointing to the secrets of the town's haunted house and staple of the community.
Pitch Green is a chilling young adult horror mystery. The comic relief comes in very small bursts such as the lead characters' ridiculous names and Cal's unavoidable pigheadedness immaturity. The romance is overshadowed and downplayed in leau of the seriousness of the plot. The point of view is third person alternating between center stage and behind the scenes. This provides much of the spine tingling suspense, because you can see through the mind of the stalker without actually having them revealed. The conclusion was beyond my predictions and is sure to stick with me. Pitch Green was well written and high on the creepy give-me-the-heebie-jeebies factor. I recommend this to any teen looking to get spooked. The Brothers Washburn have been compared to the Grimm brothers. While I'm only slightly familiar with their works I can agree that these authors possess the same drive to be the recipe of nightmares.
Pitch Green is a chilling young adult horror mystery. The comic relief comes in very small bursts such as the lead characters' ridiculous names and Cal's unavoidable pigheadedness immaturity. The romance is overshadowed and downplayed in leau of the seriousness of the plot. The point of view is third person alternating between center stage and behind the scenes. This provides much of the spine tingling suspense, because you can see through the mind of the stalker without actually having them revealed. The conclusion was beyond my predictions and is sure to stick with me. Pitch Green was well written and high on the creepy give-me-the-heebie-jeebies factor. I recommend this to any teen looking to get spooked. The Brothers Washburn have been compared to the Grimm brothers. While I'm only slightly familiar with their works I can agree that these authors possess the same drive to be the recipe of nightmares.