“It’s going to be okay. Yes, I think about that a lot. How every good parent says it, and how often they’re wrong.”
The Shadows was literally amazing, I had high hopes because The Whisper Man was one of my favorite books of 2019, but this one was even better if you can even imagine that. Alex North once again blew my mind and made an even better book than The Whisper Man.
I love books, especially thrillers, that have multiple perspectives and this one in fact had that aspect. Not only did we have different perspectives, but we had two timelines of events. When our main character, Paul, was a teenager and now twenty odd some years later returning to his home town where he never thought he would have to go again. I can’t put into words how well North’s writing is, he knows how to push those certain buttons within you that make you scared and freaked out but also wanting to know more.
“What explanation could there possibly be for the horror she had seen in the quarry that afternoon that would make sense of it? Asking why was like diving into a black hole. The deeper you went, the less light you found.”
Just like in his first novel, this book has a twist that basically throws everything off balance and has me completely and utterly shocked. My favorite part of thrillers is not only how they scare me, but if I can guess the ending or be completely dumbfounded. Let me tell you, I didn’t have an inkling of how this was going to end and was just blown away. The Shadows is going to one of the most talked about books in 2020 because it was nothing short of phenomenal.
The Shadows was literally amazing, I had high hopes because The Whisper Man was one of my favorite books of 2019, but this one was even better if you can even imagine that. Alex North once again blew my mind and made an even better book than The Whisper Man.
I love books, especially thrillers, that have multiple perspectives and this one in fact had that aspect. Not only did we have different perspectives, but we had two timelines of events. When our main character, Paul, was a teenager and now twenty odd some years later returning to his home town where he never thought he would have to go again. I can’t put into words how well North’s writing is, he knows how to push those certain buttons within you that make you scared and freaked out but also wanting to know more.
“What explanation could there possibly be for the horror she had seen in the quarry that afternoon that would make sense of it? Asking why was like diving into a black hole. The deeper you went, the less light you found.”
Just like in his first novel, this book has a twist that basically throws everything off balance and has me completely and utterly shocked. My favorite part of thrillers is not only how they scare me, but if I can guess the ending or be completely dumbfounded. Let me tell you, I didn’t have an inkling of how this was going to end and was just blown away. The Shadows is going to one of the most talked about books in 2020 because it was nothing short of phenomenal.