Title: The Twisted Ones

Author: T. Kingfisher

Publisher: Gallery 2019

Genre: Horror

Pages: 400

Rating: 3/5 stars

Reading Challenges:

When Mouse’s dad asks her to clean out her dead grandmother's house, she says yes. After all, how bad could it be?

Answer: pretty bad. Grandma was a hoarder, and her house is stuffed with useless rubbish. That would be horrific enough, but there’s more—Mouse stumbles across her step-grandfather’s journal, which at first seems to be filled with nonsensical rants…until Mouse encounters some of the terrifying things he described for herself.

Alone in the woods with her dog, Mouse finds herself face to face with a series of impossible terrors—because sometimes the things that go bump in the night are real, and they’re looking for you. And if she doesn’t face them head on, she might not survive to tell the tale.

I have absolutely loved the three most recent books from Kingfisher. So of course, I picked up this backlist choice very excited. Unfortunately, this one just didn’t land for me. I enjoyed the first section and the build up of tension. The creepy setting and beginnings of strange occurrences got me. But as the book went on, things just didn’t line up for me at all. I got pretty bored. And I didn’t love Mouse and her entire personality. By the end of the book, I was pretty bored with the story. The creep factor felt very bland and I wasn’t excited about the ending at all. At least the newer books have really hit the spot for me.

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