The Ghost Tree

A town where you know something strange is going on. A creepy forest that almost everyone is afraid of. Horribly mutilated dead bodies. And a young teen girl at the center of it all coming into her own. Yep, this is a solid horror story to keep your turning the pages!

I had to wait ages for this book since someone saw fit to check it out of the library and “adopt” it instead of returning it as normal people would have. When I finally got a copy, I thought it must really be something special since it had inspired someone to almost commit petty larceny. I was a bit disappointed in what, from the book description was supposed to be a strange murder mystery with headless corpses and monsters that were probably not human. It did offer some of that which was the good part of it but some parts were questionable and bordering on the unbelievable. Okay...I agree that anyone that can believe that some monstrous creature actually carried some headless body off through the woods should be okay to believe almost anything...right? I read a lot of m/m romances so I can accept a lot of things... but when it’s a love interest like the characters of Lauren and Jake... something just isn’t right here. Jake is in college and has recently turned 19, Lauren is 13 and about to start Jr. High School. Jake says lines like “I've been into you for a long time”...and "I dream of all the things I would like to do to you"... which is by far creepier than the monster. What? Did he have this huge crush on her when she as 9 or 10? There were only a couple murders when there was enough going on this town to have produced a lot more. Good premise for a good gory story but it fell rather short...and certainly not worth stealing.

Great creep factor, touch of magical realism, plenty of gore, interesting characters and a fast moving plot. Perfect book to read during a sinister fall storm.

Woowee that was a suspenseful horror read.
Creepy woods, a child who know things, mysterious deaths, lack of memories, family history, curses, witches and him, who is him ?!? This tale was twisted so well I really had no idea if “it” was really real or was it was a, What I don’t know. Every mystery was revealed a bit then retracted a bit so I was left with barely a guess and a lot of goosebumps. Suspense plus horror plus a coming of age all while it is going down ! I was glued to the pages, lost sleep and avoided my family to read this and don’t regret it. :P Wait till you see how it is at the end. My mind was blown, never saw that.
Trigger alert, some seriously nasty racial slurs and evil characters
I received a copy from the publisher for an honest review