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A review by nomomstayandread
Point Pleasant by Jen Archer Wood
5.0
“I hated you for leaving,” he whispered. “But then I hated me because it was my fault you left.”
What you’ll get:
Mothman (maybe)
Writer x Sheriff
Angels & Demons
Second Chance Romance
Childhood friends to lovers
Grief
TW/CW: Gore, typical mothman stuff: kidnapping, animal deaths, death of a parent
Setting: West Virginia & Massachusetts
Gotta love a book that starts with two kids sneaking out and getting immediately chased by the Mothman in the middle of the night. I loved that we just hopped right into it.
Ben is stumped with his writing and heads back to his hometown to get a change of pace. He almost immediately runs into his estranged best friend, Nicholas. Ben and Nicholas were best friends since birth in this small town they grew up in. Did everything together until we jump to the future and it turns out that they haven’t seen or spoken to each other in 13 years after they have the worlds most awkward reunion.
Ben is a horror writer and starts asking questions about all of the animals that have gone missing and ends up out in the woods having a yell off with the Mothman as one does. Nicholas is now the town Sheriff and is completely exasperated that Ben is out kicking the bushes and pissing off their town’s least kept secret.
The angst was so good. We find out just why they haven’t spoken and who missed who when they were apart. I am trash for a good emotional punch once in awhile and when Nicholas had a well worn copy of Ben’s book (about him!) that Ben wrote under a pen name, I knew it was a matter of when not if with them.
This is essentially Supernatural fanfiction with different names and I don’t care at all about that. I enjoyed this very much and am sad to see that the author doesn’t seem to have finished the other stories in the progress bar on her website. If she’s writing under a different pen name, TELL ME. If she’s not because all of her social media stuff seems to have stopped abruptly ten years ago, please don’t tell me.
What you’ll get:
Mothman (maybe)
Writer x Sheriff
Angels & Demons
Second Chance Romance
Childhood friends to lovers
Grief
TW/CW: Gore, typical mothman stuff: kidnapping, animal deaths, death of a parent
Setting: West Virginia & Massachusetts
Gotta love a book that starts with two kids sneaking out and getting immediately chased by the Mothman in the middle of the night. I loved that we just hopped right into it.
Ben is stumped with his writing and heads back to his hometown to get a change of pace. He almost immediately runs into his estranged best friend, Nicholas. Ben and Nicholas were best friends since birth in this small town they grew up in. Did everything together until we jump to the future and it turns out that they haven’t seen or spoken to each other in 13 years after they have the worlds most awkward reunion.
Ben is a horror writer and starts asking questions about all of the animals that have gone missing and ends up out in the woods having a yell off with the Mothman as one does. Nicholas is now the town Sheriff and is completely exasperated that Ben is out kicking the bushes and pissing off their town’s least kept secret.
The angst was so good. We find out just why they haven’t spoken and who missed who when they were apart. I am trash for a good emotional punch once in awhile and when Nicholas had a well worn copy of Ben’s book (about him!) that Ben wrote under a pen name, I knew it was a matter of when not if with them.
This is essentially Supernatural fanfiction with different names and I don’t care at all about that. I enjoyed this very much and am sad to see that the author doesn’t seem to have finished the other stories in the progress bar on her website. If she’s writing under a different pen name, TELL ME. If she’s not because all of her social media stuff seems to have stopped abruptly ten years ago, please don’t tell me.